Understanding how auxins and cytokinins build a plant.
Four working groups studying auxin and cytokinin homeostasis, hormone–environment stress responses, and RNA processing in plant development, combining transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling across the lab’s model systems.
Four groups, one shared question
How do plant hormones coordinate growth, development, and stress response — at the cell, tissue, and whole-plant level.
Auxin transport
Molecular mechanisms of polar auxin transport and its regulation across the plasma membrane and endomembrane system.
Cytokinin homeostasis
Transport and metabolism of cytokinins, and how their dynamic distribution shapes plant developmental responses.
Environmental stress
Hormone cross-talk in abiotic and biotic stress responses, toward strategies for improved stress tolerance.
RNA processing
RNA processing in hormonal pathways, with a focus on mRNA methylation and splicing.
Join the lab
We welcome motivated students and postdocs from all backgrounds. Reach out to the group leader whose research matches your interests to discuss opportunities.
Lab news
13
Aug
Glowing plants reveal how hormones fight off disease and pests
An international team including our researchers engineered plants that glow in the dark, with light intensity signalling the levels of two hormones central to plant defence — published in Nature Communications and featured by ÚEB. Read the ÚEB feature →
09
Dec
Amel Y. named among Masaryk University’s elite researchers
Recognition for her run of awards and fellowships in the RNA processing group.
01
Dec
New Czech Science Foundation grant secured
A three-year project on how AtENT1/3 transporters take up microbe-produced cytokinin ribosides into roots, and what it means for cytokinin homeostasis.
Auxins and Cytokinins in Plant Development
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Who’s in the lab
Researchers, postdocs, PhD and master’s students, and technical staff across all four groups.
