Author: Petr Klíma

A Czech-Swiss team led by LHR’s Adriana Jelínková, with co-author Jan Petrášek, has found that developing phloem sieve elements expel their remaining cell contents into neighbouring cells in a rapid final step that completes their maturation, published in Current Biology. Read the ÚEB feature →

An international team including LHR postdoc Michael Karampelias, who has led the lab’s bioluminescence research since 2021, engineered plants that glow in the dark, with light intensity signalling the levels of two hormones central to plant defence, published in Nature Communications. Read the ÚEB feature →