Signal integration and epigenetic reprograming for plant productivity

The main goal of the project is to identify key regulators mediating integration of environmental, hormonal and stress-related signalling pathways with epigenetic regulations and assessing their role as potential targets in the generation of stress-tolerant plants. The project aims to describe the key signalling and/or regulatory components in Arabidopsis and selected crops and explore their genetic variability. The information will be used for the targeted improvement of Brassica sp. and potato with ultimate goal to generate crops with higher survival and yield under (particularly drought) stress conditions.

Organigram of SINGING PLANT project.

To achieve the project objectives, we will employ the expertize of the project team in genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, analytical chemistry and electrical engineering (electronics) with up-to-date approaches in the plant phenotyping. The collaboration of academy (CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) with local industrial partner (PSI - Photon Systems Instruments, Ltd., Drasov, Czech Republic) and key abroad collaborator (IPK - Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung, Gatersleben, Germany) will allow to maximize the mutual synergies generated in frame of the consortium and successfully solve all the project tasks.