Mint (Mentha sp.) is a fast growing culinary herb with a high economical potential due to its high content of secondary metabolites with significant biological activities. Our colleague Nuria De Diego presents, how amounts and composition of these compounds can be modulated through optimization of the nutritional levels of the hydroponic growing solution.

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Want to learn more about phenotype-based approaches to characterize seed priming agents as abiotic stress mitigators? Check out Lukáš Spíchal’s presentation given at this year’s EFB2021 conference.

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What is the environmental fate of graphene oxide (GO)—one of the most studied graphene derivatives—in aquatic ecosystem? We found that when we mimic the conditions of a real aquatic environment in the laboratory testing, organisms will successfully mitigate long-term GO’s long-term toxicity, and, therefore, it won’t be hazardous to them. That’s great news opening the door to environmental applications benefiting from the extraordinary properties of graphene oxide. You can find out more about this topic in Tomáš Malina’s presentation.

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What is phenotyping, what does it do in plant research and what does it do? This is explained by our colleague Pavel Mazura from Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University. In the past, he has been involved, among other things, in the development of a robotic system called Cinderella, designed to automatically prepare samples for the research of plant behaviour in various environments.

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