See our new article about high light intensity modulating heat-stress tolerance by increasing cytokinins: Cytokinin elevation caused by high light intensity contributes substantially to the increase of thermotolerance of rice plants (Plant Stress, 2025).
Category: Environmental stress
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New article: organ-targeted cold stress in rice
See our new article about organ-targeted cold stress in rice, emphasizing stress hormones and cytokinins behaving differently in roots and shoots: Hormonal responses of rice to organ-targeted cold stress (Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2024).
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New article: cytokinins, heat stress, and volatile organic compounds
See our article about the role of cytokinins in heat stress and the production of volatile organic compounds: Cytokinins act synergistically with heat acclimation to enhance rice thermotolerance affecting hormonal dynamics, gene expression and volatile emission (Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2023).
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Featured: our organ-targeted cold-stress experiments in rice
ÚEB featured our organ-targeted cold-stress work in rice: comparing whole-plant, shoot-only, and root-only chilling at 5°C, with and without a 15°C pre-acclimation step, to see which treatment hits growth hardest and how well the plants recover. Read the full report on the ÚEB website.
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Cold-stress experiments on rice
LHR’s Jana Jarošová walked through experiments testing how young rice plants respond to cold stress, tracking hormonal responses, growth arrest, and recovery, in a video report (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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Dr. Vaňková awarded DSc. title
Radomíra Vaňková, who researches cytokinins and stress hormones in LHR, received the Doctor of Science (DSc.) title, awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences to leading scientific figures since 2003 (in Czech). Read the ÚEB feature →
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Radomíra Vaňková awarded the DSc. degree
Our group leader, Radomíra Vaňková, was awarded the Doctor of Science (DSc.) degree by the Czech Academy of Sciences, for her dissertation on the role of cytokinins in plant responses to abiotic and biotic stress. Read more on the ÚEB website.