Category: Auxin

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 →

LHR head Jan Petrášek and colleagues — including team members Anita Bírošíková and Milada Čovanová — described a surprising genetic mechanism that lets tobacco cell cultures grow and divide without the otherwise essential hormone auxin, a case of “evolution in a test tube.” Read the ÚEB feature →

ÚEB opened its doors for public lab tours, including LHR’s “Dark Lab” station showing off bioluminescent plants that glow to reveal their internal hormone signals (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →