Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR
We are Discovering the Plant World

Contacts

Group head: 

Martin Vágner

Centre: 

Lysolaje

Address: 

Rozvojová 263, 165 02 Praha 6 - Lysolaje

Email: 

vagnerueb [dot] cas [dot] cz

Phone: 

+420 225 106 409

Research areas of the laboratory:

• Metabolism of phenolic compounds, growth regulators and polyamines in plant tissue cultures, metabolism of phenolic compounds and polyamines in relation to growth and differentiation.
• Somatic embryogenesis of conifers (Picea abies, Abies alba, A. cephalonica, A. nordmanniana): induction of embryogenic cultures, maturation, desiccation, and germination of somatic embryos. Endogenous phytohormones during somatic embryogenesis (ABA, IAA, cytokinins, polyamines, ethylene), anatomy of somatic embryos. Cryopreservation of conifer embryogenic cultures.
• Computer image analysis, microscopy, confocal microscopy. Cytoskeleton.
• Phytoremediation.
• Regulation of flower induction.