Our research is supported by both the foreign and the Czech grant agencies.

International grants

2022

M-ERA.NET Call 2021 (MOST TW / IFD / NCN / TAČR): Greenhouse-PV: Semi-transparent PV coatings for greenhouse application. Czech principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2022–2025.

HORIZON-WIDERA-2022, project number 10109029: HorLumAS, Visualization of plant Hormone dynamics using BioLuminescence during Abiotic Stress. Widening participation and spreading excellence, European Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission. Principal investigator: Mike Karampelias, Host: Jan Petrášek. 2022-2024.

2021

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 21-08021L): Deep cell biology of plant cell polarity. Lead Agency project between SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) and CSF (Czech Science Foundation).  Czech principal investigator: Jan Petrášek, Swiss principal investigator: Christian Hardtke (University Lausanne). 2021–2023.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 21-20936J): Development and validation of a suite of imaging reporters for plant hormones based on genetically encoded bioluminescence. Bilateral Grant Project with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russia. Czech principal investigator: Jan Petrášek, Russian principal investigator: Ilia W. Yampolsky (Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Moscow), 2021–2023.

2018

Inter-COST (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LTC18047 / MSMT-16506/2018-27): Analysis of specificity and efficacy of RNAi in tobacco BY-2 cell line. Principal investigator: Karel Müller. 2018–2021

Inter-COST (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LTC18073): RNA maturation and auxin response – a spot for mRNA methylation. Principal investigator: Kamil Růžička. 2018–2021.

2017

INTER-EXCELLENCE (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. INTER-ACTION – LTAUSA17081): Hormonal mechanisms of plant acclimation to heat and cold stresses. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2017-2021.

USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), project 58-8042-7-089F: Plant tissue analysis for quantification of phytohormones in fruits (tomato). Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2017–2021.

2015

COST-CZ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LD15137): Nitrate transceptor NRT1.1 as a tool of plant adaptability to the changing nutrient conditions. Principal investigator: Klára Hoyerová. 2015–2017

COST-CZ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LD15088): Regulation of transport of auxins and their metabolism by strigolactones. Principal investigator: Eva Zažímalová. 2015–2017.

COST-CZ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LD15093): Comparison of the impact of biotic and abiotic stresses on plant hormonal pool. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2015-2017.

2014

COST-CZ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. LD14120): The impact of phosphorus nutrition on strigolactone, cytokinin and auxin cross-talk. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2014–2017

Programme of cooperation between Czech Republic and the French Community of Belgium and the Walloon Region: Etude de l´homéostasie des cytokinines chez les plantes et de leur implication dans les stratégies de résistance à la salinité dans une perspective de développement durable. Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2014–2016.

2011

Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, COST (LD11073): The role of plant hormones in the response to salt stress – comparison of Arabidopsis and Thellungiella. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2011–2013.

3^rd Programme of cooperation between Czech Republic and the French Community of Belgium and the Walloon Region: Integrative analysis of hormonal interactions and role of cytokinin metabolism in response of plants to salt stress: a tool for developing sustainable agriculture in margine zones. Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2011–2013.

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Action COST 858: Viticulture: Biotic and Abiotic Stress: Grapevine Defence Mechanism and Grape Development. – Project: The impact of plant hormones abscisic acid and cytokinins on water stress tolerance of grapevine. Investigator: R. Vaňková.

Action COST 863: Euroberry Research: From Genomics to Sustainable Production, Quality and Health. – Project: The impact of plant hormones cytokinins and abscisic acid on regulation of berry dormancy and stress tolerance. Investigator: R. Vaňková.

National grants

2023

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 23-07813S): Revealing the nature of auxin regulation of cell division and expansion. Principal investigator: Jan Petrášek. Co-investigator: Lukáš Fischer, Charles University. 2023–2025.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 23-08067S): Modulating ABA signaling pathways by alternative splicing of ABI2. Principal investigator: Kamil Růžička. 2023–2025.

2021

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project no. TP01010037): Support for the process of commercializing the results of research and development at the Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR v.v.i. from 2020. Principal investigator: Tomáš Vaněk. Subproject: Thermoregulatory vessels. Principal investigator of the subproject: Sylva Přerostová. 2021-2022.

2020

Czech Science Foundation (project no. GA20-22875S): Organelle-specific gene expression and hormone dynamics during heat stress and high light responses. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. Co-investigator: Ondřej Novák (Faculty od Science, Palacký University, Olomouc). 2020-2022.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 20–13587S): The evolutionary origin and significance of auxin transport. Principal investigator: Jan Petrášek. Co-investigator: Dr. Stanislav Vosolsobě, Department of Plant Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague. 2020–2022.

2019

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 19-12262S): Physiological, biochemical, molecular and phylogenic characterization of metabolic pathways and mechanisms of cytokinin down-regulation in plants. Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2019-2021.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 19-23773S): PIN transporter-mediated auxin sinks in plant development. Principal investigator: Kamil Růžička. 2019-2021.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 19–13103S): Anatomical and physiological constraints as key factors governing plant vegetative regeneration from roots. Co-investigator: Václav Motyka (Principal investigator: Dr. Jitka Klimešová, Institute of Botany CAS, Třeboň). 2019–2021.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. GJ19-13375Y): The role of actin cytoskeleton in lytic degradation of auxin plasma membrane carriers. Principal investigator: Katarzyna Retzer. 2019-2021.

2018

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, project no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000738 (EU Operational Programme “Research, development and education”): Centre for Plant Experimental Biology. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2018–2023.

2017

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 17-04607S): Light – cytokinin interactions in contrasting Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes during cold acclimation and their impact on freezing stress responses. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2017–2019.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 17-06613S): Phytohormone cross-talk during sub-zero acclimation. Co-investigator: Radomíra Vaňková (Principal investigator: Ondřej Novák, Palacký University, Olomouc). 2017–2019.

Czech Academy of Sciences (project no. MSM200381701): AtAUX1: molecular mechanism of its action, and relationships between its structure and transport function. Principal investigator: Katarzyna Retzer. 2017–2019.

2016

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 16–19557S): Specificity and regulation of auxin transport by nitrate transceptor NRT1.1 in plants. Principal investigator: Klára Hoyerová. 2016–2018.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 16–14649S): Inactivation of cytokinin-type phytohormones via N- and O-glucosylation – phylogeny and significance in evolution of hormonal homeostatic mechanisms. Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2016–2018.

Czech Science Foundation (project no. 16–10948S): Establishment and regulation of auxin homeostasis on a single cell level: Metabolic and transport processes. Principal investigator: Eva Zažímalová. 2016–2018.

2012

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P501/12/P951): The role of auxin binding protein 1-mediated signaling in the control of vesicle trafficking in plant cells. Principal investigator: Milada Čovanová. 2012–2015.

2011

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P305/11/0797): Molecular mechanisms controlling homeostasis of plant growth regulatory compound auxin. Principal investigator: Eva Zažímalová. 2011–2014.

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P305/11/2476): Auxin transport and cytoskeleton in the morphogenesis of plant cells. Principal investigator: Jan Petrášek. 2011–2014.

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P506/11/0774): Integrating proteomic and genomic tools to contribute evolutionary processes across the plant kingdom with emphasis to the family of cytokinins. Principal investigator: Václav Motyka. 2011–2014.

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P305/11/P797): Cytoskeletal proteins mediating targeted deposition of auxin transporters. Principal investigator: Adriana Jelínková. 2011–2014.

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA01011802): Auxinic herbicides: Design of herbicides with modified effectiveness and/or species selectivity. Principal investigator: Petr Skůpa (In collaboration with AGRA GROUP a.s.). 2011–2014.

2009

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (206/09/2062): The role of cytokinins and polyamines in heat stress response and thermotolerance in tobacco and Arabidopsis plants. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2009–2013.

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (522/09/2058): Dynamics of plant hormones and proteome during the cold acclimation in winter and spring wheat and selected recombinants. Principal investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2009–2013.

Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (KJB600380904): Transcription regulation of PIN genes. Principal investigator: Jiří Libus. 2009–2012.

2008

Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (NAZV QH82231): Strawberry production in ecological cultivation systems. Co-investigator: Radomíra Vaňková. 2008–2012.

Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (IAA600380805): Metabolic regulations of root to shoot hormonal signaling in plants. Principal investigator: Miroslav Kamínek. 2008–2011.

2007

Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (IAA600380701): Alternative ways regulating intra- and extracellular concentrations and activities of isoprenoid cytokinins in plants. Principal investigator: V. Motyka. 2007 – 2010.

Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (KJB600380702): The role of members of AUX/LAX gene family in auxin influx into plant cell. Principal investigator: K. Hoyerová. 2007 – 2009.

2006

Research program of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Research centre 1M06030): Functional genomics and proteomics for crop improvement. Investigator: Miroslav Kamínek. 2006–2011.

Research program of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Research centre LC06034): Regulation of morphogenesis of plant cells and organs. Principal investigator: Eva Zažímalová. 2006–2011.

Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (A600040612): Functional analysis of Shooting gene in Arabidopsis and tobacco. Co-investigator: R. Vaňková. 2006 – 2008.

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (206/06/1306): The role of cytokinin/abscisic acid balance in abiotic stress response and recovery. Principal investigator: R. Vaňková. 2006 – 2008.