Reactive signalling molecules help plants fight disease12. 4. 2021 Each cell produces during metabolic processes various by-products, including molecules possessing reactive oxygen (so called “reactive oxygen species”, ROS). Such a molecules react very readily...
Counting the cost of invasive species31. 3. 2021 Biological invasions — the introduction and spread of a species outside its native habitat — have resulted in at least US$1.288 trillion (2017 US dollars) in associated costs worldwide between 1970...
Silk Road: not only goods, but also plant viruses29. 3. 2021 Plant viruses can spread over long distance by different ways. In the modern history, their expansion was driven mainly by human when trading with plants and their fruits. That has been recently...
Tracking invasions with digital data22. 3. 2021 Large online data sources are increasingly important to understand biological invasions. Emerging fields of conservation culturomics and iEcology have a great potential to inform invasion science...
Fish scales as archives of environmental change19. 3. 2021 Scales have been widely used to determine the age and growth status of fish. As a result, extensive collections of archived fish scales are stored in numerous fisheries agencies, research...
Stories of Želivka asp 11. 3. 2021 This story will take us to the Švihov reservoir on the Želivka river. It is one of the most important dam reservoirs in the Czech Republic, which supplies the majority of the capital city of Prague...
Lab of Michael Wrzaczek will shed light on the communication of plant cells9. 3. 2021 How do plant cells communicate, sense information from the environment and coordinate between different parts of the plant? How is this communication orchestrated? These are some of questions which...
International evaluation started at the Biology Centre8. 3. 2021 The Czech Academy of Sciences is currently going through the process of Evaluation of the research and professional activities for the period 2015–2019. As today, on Monday, March 8, the second...
Neanderthal and early modern human stone tool culture co-existed for over 100,000 years4. 3. 2021 Research from the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean, likely persisted for tens of...
Editors´ Choice of Science recommended paper in Nature Microbiology by Tanja Shabarova23. 2. 2021 The unique survey made by authors from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS, and published in Nature Microbiology in January 2021, which characterized the response of an entire pond...
