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The main scientific results achieved in individual departments of the Institute of Experimental Botany during 30 years of its existence are briefly summarized. They include methods of studying photosynthesis, ontogenetic changes of photosynthetic characteristics, stress factors affecting photosynthetic activities, photosynthesis of transgenic plants and duringin vitro cultivation, roles of auxins and cytokinins in plant growth and development, development and testing of new plant growth regulators, models of organogenesisin vitro, metabolic and mutagenic activities of phenolic substances, hormonal regulation of flowering, activities of promutagens (nitrosamines, 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene), model systems of genetic damage, repair synthesis and post-replication repair, developmental pollen biology and biotechnology, extracellular nucleolytic activity of pollen, selection of apple scab immune cultivars of apple tree, chemotaxonomy ofFabaceae andAllium species, selection pressures in embryoids, somatic embryogenesis and nuclear genome changes in plant cell and callus cultures, discoveries of new plant viruses, virus spread and persistence in crops, development of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies, role of oxidative pentosephosphate cycle in biosynthesis of viral RNA, and virus diseases of forest trees.
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Šesták, Z., Krekule, J., Tupý, J. et al. Plant physiology, genetics, biotechnology and pathology in the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1962–1992). Biol Plant 34, 3–14 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02925783
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