Scientists ask the EU to enable the use of new methods of plant genome editing25. 7. 2019 Today marks one year since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that organisms treated with precision breeding techniques (CRISPR) are genetically modified organisms (GMO). However, it also...
Biparental care recorded for the first time in bees7. 7. 2019 The article in PNAS provides the first evidence of biparental care for offspring in bees.
Biology Center researcher leads the first survey of insects on a remote South Pacific island6. 7. 2019 During the last three months, Dr. Milan Janda (Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, www.antlab.mx) together with Jacob Yombai and Ali Posman from the research and conservation NGO,...
Indigenous soil microorganisms are essential to prevent dissemination of risky genes in soil from animal manure24. 6. 2019 The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotic drugs is one of the major challenges facing human and veterinary medicine in the 21st century. Both research and practice recognize that...
Researchers map symbiotic relationships between trees and microbes worldwide20. 5. 2019 Data collected from over 1 million forest plots reveals patterns of where plant roots form symbiotic relationships with fungi and bacteria. In its current issue, the prestigious journal Nature has...
New ERC-CZ grant to uncover some secrets of multicellularity23. 4. 2019 Almost each cell of single animal or a plant contains the same DNA. However, there is a wide variety of cells with different shapes or functions. How is it brought about? What is it that enabled...
Lux in tenebris lucet: Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche17. 4. 2019 Asgardarchaeota, a phylum-level division within the Archaea domain of life, comprises the closest extant relatives of the eukaryotes (discovered to date). Known only from metagenomics-based...
Life on Earth 750 million years ago was much more diverse, than expected12. 3. 2019 Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million years ago, life on Earth was much more...
Registration for Plant Biology CS 2019 has been open6. 3. 2019 Every three years, the Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology and Plant Physiology section of the Slovak Botanical Society jointly organize meetings, which are hosted by alternating Czech and...
How do tree species affect soil organic carbon stability in forests? 5. 3. 2019 Tree species with high amounts of nitrogen, and low amounts of calcium and poorly decomposable compounds (e.g., lipids, lignin) in their root tissue increase the stability of carbon (C) stored in...