Laboratory of Biologically Active Compounds
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.
Workers
Workers:
head of the laboratoryscientist
- Mgr. Kateřina Eliášová PhD.
scientist
- RNDr. Lucie Fischerová Ph.D.
- RNDr. Zuzana Vondráková CSc.
graduated technical assistant
- Ing. Jana Pavlíčková
- ing. Alena Trávníčková
technician
former employee
- RNDr. Milena Cvikrová
- Mgr. Lenka Gemperlová PhD
- Ing. Kateřina Raková
Research projects
Research projects:
Number of grants/projects: 6
- The profile of carotenoids in selected apple varieties in relation to storage conditions , MŠMT , Zuzana Vondráková
- The role of polyamines in the process of plant autophagy , MŠMT , Lenka Gemperlová
- Contribution of super-resolution microscopy and image analysis to the study of plant in vitro cultures with the emphasis on somatic embryogenesis of conifers , MŠMT , Kateřina Eliášová
- Improvement of pre-sowing treatments for dormant European beech seeds , MZE NAZV , Zuzana Vondráková
- The use of biotechnology methods for the preservation and reproduction of autochtonous populations of hurst ecotype of Norway spruces. , MZE NAZV , Milena Cvikrová
- Effects of drought and heat stress on polyamine metabolism in wild type and transgenic tobacco plants. , MŠMT , Milena Cvikrová
Publications
Publications:
Number of publications: 89
2012
- JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 169 567-576 2012
- Embryogenesis. ISBN 979-953-307-439-8. 2012
- PLANT SCIENCE 182 49-58 2012 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only
- PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 61 18-23 2012
- PLANT SCIENCE 188 60-70 2012
- PLANT SCIENCE 182 49-58 2012
2011
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY 6 587-596 2011 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY 6 587-596 2011
- PLANT GROWTH REGULATION 65 23-34 2011
- PLANT GROWTH REGULATION 65 427-437 2011 Fulltext: PDF link on intranet only