Researchers map symbiotic relationships between trees and microbes worldwide20. 5. 2019 Data collected from over 1 million forest plots reveals patterns of where plant roots form symbiotic relationships with fungi and bacteria. In its current issue, the prestigious journal Nature has...
New ERC-CZ grant to uncover some secrets of multicellularity23. 4. 2019 Almost each cell of single animal or a plant contains the same DNA. However, there is a wide variety of cells with different shapes or functions. How is it brought about? What is it that enabled...
Lux in tenebris lucet: Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche17. 4. 2019 Asgardarchaeota, a phylum-level division within the Archaea domain of life, comprises the closest extant relatives of the eukaryotes (discovered to date). Known only from metagenomics-based...
Life on Earth 750 million years ago was much more diverse, than expected12. 3. 2019 Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million years ago, life on Earth was much more...
Registration for Plant Biology CS 2019 has been open6. 3. 2019 Every three years, the Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology and Plant Physiology section of the Slovak Botanical Society jointly organize meetings, which are hosted by alternating Czech and...
How do tree species affect soil organic carbon stability in forests? 5. 3. 2019 Tree species with high amounts of nitrogen, and low amounts of calcium and poorly decomposable compounds (e.g., lipids, lignin) in their root tissue increase the stability of carbon (C) stored in...
Olga Flegontova on board of research icebreaker Polarstern28. 2. 2019 Olga Flegontova, a molecular and evolutionary biologist from the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre CAS, is on board of the German research icebreaker Polarstern, which is just breaking...
Julius Lukes became officially fellow of the AAAS21. 2. 2019 Professor Julius Lukeš as the only Scientist from the Czech Republic has been eclected as 2018 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). On February 16 he became...
We discovered 7 new viruses19. 2. 2019 Seven new virus species were discovered last year by scientists of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology at Biological centre CAS. The viruses attack strawberry, cherries, black-current and red...
Paper of the Month in Parasitology25. 1. 2019 The publication Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution has been selected by the editors of Parasitology as their...
