Mechanisms and regulation of plant defence responses
Lenka Luhová, Marek Petřivalský, Lucie Činčalová, Tereza Jedelská, Martina Janků, Jana Sekaninová, Jana Jahnová, Dan Vojtovič
- Functions of reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNS, ROS) in plant responses to pathogens and plant resistance mechanisms
- Role of ROS and RNS in plant responses to abiotic stress factors (salinity, high temperature, heavy metals)
- Role of ROS and RNS in plant protoplast regeneration
- Role of protein S-nitrosation and S-nitrosoglutathione reductase in plant signalling
- Role of ROS and RNS in plant responses to microbial elicitors
- Role of post-translational modifications of protein cysteins in signalling pathways of sulfane during plant responses to stress factors
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and immunity
Jiří Danihlík, Marek Petřivalský, Silvie Dostálková, Martina Janků, Jana Biová
- Purification and quantification of bee antimicrobial peptides
- Testing of antimicrobial peptides and other substances against bee bacterial pathogens
- Studies of bee immune system in responses to pathogens and parasites
- Analysis of factors involved in honey bee losses, www.collos.cz
Development of bioinformatics tools
- Studies of genomes of soya bean and of other important crops
- Development of bioinformatics tools to manage big data Sequence Guide Dog (R, Perl)
- Identification of mutation causing phenotypes – development of GWAS (Genome-wide Association Study) method, development of tools to visualize haplotypes (SNPViz 2.0)
- Preparation and characterization of mutants, design of new cultivars