Centre of Plant Structural & Functional Genomics

Our research unveils the organization of genetic information of plants and explains how it controls plant growth and development. Our teams collaborate with colleagues across the world. We have participated in the ambitious projects that delivered genome sequences of important crops including barley and wheat.

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New publication: Epigenome and interactome profiling . . .
Annotation:  Gene transcription is controlled by an interplay of transcription factors, non-coding RNA and cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters, enhancers and silencers. Interest in these elements is growing in crops as they were found to be associated with variation in agronomically important traits. In order to identify and characterize CREs in the barley genome, we performed genome-wide profiling of several epigenetic features, which . . .
New publication: A genetransfer strategy based on . . .
Annotation:  This study explores a top-crossing strategy to broaden the genetic base of wheat using Aegilops comosa. Detailed cytogenetic analyses revealed selective elimination and rearrangement of alien and wheat chromosomes. Frequent homoeologous recombinations enabled the development of diverse introgression, substitution, and translocation lines. Several alien chromosomes showed good compensation for missing wheat chromosomes without yield . . .
New publication: Integrative morpho-physiological and . . .
Annotation:  Climate change intensifies stresses such as drought and heat, threatening crop yields, while elevated CO₂ can improve photosynthesis and water-use efficiency (WUE). We tested drought (D), elevated temperature (eT) and elevated CO₂ (eC) alone, in all pairwise combinations and together (eC+eT+D). The eT+D combination caused the largest declines in growth and yield, whereas eC consistently increased WUE and partially mitigated stress . . .

Events

Seminar of Hua Jiang
Date:
20.1.2026 at 10 a.m.
Place:
ÚEB, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc
Theme: Securing plant reproduction under climate change  
Seminar of Petr Dvořák
Date:
17.2.2026 at 13:00
Place:
ÚEB, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc
Theme:  Global speciation continuum of the Cyanobacterium Microcoleus below Your feet
Seminar of Petr Stiblík
Date:
18.11.2025 at 13:00
Place:
ÚEB, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc
Theme: From gels to nanopores – what we put nucleic acids through  
Seminar of Jiří Macas
Date:
23.10.2025 at 13:00
Place:
ÚEB, Šlechtitelů 31, Olomouc
Theme: The evolutionary interplay between centromeres and distribution of repeats in plant genomes

Our Activities

The Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech . . .
The Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics is one of the organizational units of the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The Institute of was founded in 1962. Today, it has 14 laboratories located in Prague and Olomouc. The institute conducts fundamental research in plant genetics, physiology, phytopathology and biotechnology. The research in plant genetics focuses on plant genome organization, evolution and . . .
The Application Laboratory for Agricultural Research
The Application Laboratory for Agricultural Research is the first laboratory at the Czech Academy of Sciences to link scientists with breeders and farmers. It was established under the Food for Future Program of the Strategy AV21 in February 2017 and is located at the Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics of the Institute of Experimental Botany in Olomouc. The main objective of the Laboratory is to facilitate the . . .
Sustainable food production and consumption of . . .
The Strategy of the Czech Academy of Sciences responds to current social challenges through a sophisticated formulation of research programmes, based on cooperation of scientific fields and institutions. The research programmes of the CAS are open to partners from universities, corporations, and institutions of regional administration, as well as foreign research groups and organisations. The research programmes are proposed and formulated in discussion . . .