Our research of plant stress, which comprises processes related to ethylene (e.g. abscission, senescence), involved studies on oxidative stress induced by heavy metals. A duckweed (Lemna minor ) proved to be a suitable model system for early heavy metal detection in waters polluted by metals. We also published the first characterization of the gene from the PR-5 group from flax and its differential expression in different tissues of healthy and ethylene treated plants. We introduced and optimized a method for in situ hybridization.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1850447
Our research of plant biotic stress included the study of stress induced by plant pathogens. We studied the contribution of peroxidases to the early response of several potato cultivars to the virus infection. The highest observed changes were detected in the resistant cultivars. Significant differences were also observed between ionic and covalently bound peroxidases.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1850959