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Main centre of botanical research in the Czech Republic.
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🙌FunSem IV is behind us — long live FunSem V! 👑The 4th edition of the Functional Ecology Seminar was full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions. See you again next year! 🌱 @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #plant #ecology #traits #evolution #diversity
February 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Our colleague Tomáš Figura won the first prize of the Invisible Imaging Contest by @eurobioimaging.bsky.social!

The image "Is this what a fern looks like?" shows the fertile frond of Schizaea fluminensis, a curly grass fern from South America, with blue spore capsules on its purple frond. 🥇🎉
February 2, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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A research team including our botanists has drawn attention to a rare albino beech from the Moravian Karst. The tree lacks chlorophyll and, despite this, has been growing for about 30 years. Researchers investigated where it gets the sugars it needs to survive. Read more
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Survival without photosynthesis: physiological characterization of long-lived albino beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Abstract. Albinism is typically lethal in autotrophic plants due to the absence of photosynthetic pigments and functioning chloroplasts. Yet, rare exceptio
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January 30, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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Projekt EXPLANT (MSCA OP JAK) nám pomůže podpořit 3 talentované mladé vědce.
🌱 Dva zahraniční badatelé u nás budou zkoumat, jak rostliny zvládají sucho a stárnutí.
🌍 Český kolega naopak vyrazí do Španělska studovat sekvestraci uhlíku.
Projekt je spolufinancován Evropskou unií. Těšíme se na výsledky!
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Právě vyšla nová odborná monografie Karpatské lesostepní louky, která se věnuje jednomu z nejbohatších a nejméně pochopených ekosystémů střední Evropy. Přináší ucelený pohled na vegetaci, druhovou pestrost a vývoj lesostepních luk na okraji Karpat. Autorem je kolega Jan Roleček a kolektiv.
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
A new on our blog ▶️ 📢https://1url.cz/lJAdf
#Rhizosphere #RootExudates #PlantEcology #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #Soil #Exudate #Microbes @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Drawing by Curtis Lubbe
January 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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#ExFuMo in 2025🎯 Review: new insights into #rhizome investment & #ontogeny, the #Belowground #Persistence Types” framework, the Plant Bodies book, and hands-on belowground training #IAVS #workshop + #GoBelowground course)
Read the recap ▶️ 1url.cz/KJxLz
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The year 2025 for ExFuMo in review
Commentary by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above is by F. Curtis Lubbe. Now it is the time for reflecting on the p…
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January 7, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
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Go Belowground! 2026
The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 8th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…
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January 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek

Species habitat preferences and root trait variation across 65 temperate perennial forbs by Zuzana Münzbergová and co-authors in @annbot.bsky.social

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Differences in root traits among species are shaped mainly by the environments they are adapted to, especially levels of soil disturbance, rather than by lifespan or evolutionary history, with root form showing consistent patterns across environments while root chemistry and biomass allocation are more context dependent.
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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We continue uncovering hidden Batrachium diversity with the discovery of an extremely rare diploid hybrid combination, newly found in the Czech Republic.
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preslia.cz Preslia @preslia.cz · Dec 15
Why are allopolyploids common in Batrachium, but no diploid hybrids? This puzzle is now solved: a large-scale screening uncovered a natural hybrid between diploid species, providing new insight into the early stages of polyploid evolution.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Šest drobných, okem sotva postřehnutelných lišejníků a houbu, která na lišejnících roste jako parazit, objevili poprvé v ČR naši botanici v Kalvárii v Motole a Oboře Hvězda. www.ibot.cas.cz/cs/pressrele...
📸houba parazitující na lišejnících Erythricium aurantiacum, Alexis, iNaturalist
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Vítěznou fotografií letošní Vědy fotogenické je Anglermoss od našeho kolegy Tomáše Figury. Gratulujeme! Nejen ji můžete vidět na aktuální výstavě v galerii Věda a umění @akademievedcr.bsky.social.
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Plants race too! Just belowground. #Taproot stays put, #bulbsdives down, #tubers scatter in all directions, but the hypogeogenous #rhizome and a #rootsprouter take the gold for lateral spread
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#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #art #lateralspread @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
Drawing by Curtis Lubbe
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Vědci z @ibotcz.bsky.social publikovali studii v @imafungus.pensoft.net, která odhalila, že 7 kmenů uložených pod stejným druhovým názvem v mez. sbírce je ve skutečnosti 7 geneticky i morfologicky odlišných druhů hub, náležejících do čtyř různých řádů a tří tříd v rámci odd. Ascomycota.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Complex interplay between climatic factors: What are the individual and interactive effects of temperature and soil moisture on the root metabolome of the alpine Himalayan dwarf shrub Rhododendron anthopogon?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Gratulujeme Martě Kudrnáčové, která v rámci Otevřené vědy absolvovala stáž v našem ústavu a na studentské konferenci získala ocenění v kategorii biologie a ekologie. Ve svém studiu se zaměřila na efekt prostředí, stáří semen a typ opylování na klíčení a růst ohroženého druhu drobnokvět pobřežní.
akademievedcr.bsky.social Akademie věd ČR @akademievedcr.bsky.social · Nov 18
📊 Výsledky několikaměsíční práce představili na studentské konferenci Otevřené vědy v hlavní budově Akademie věd ČR na Národní třídě v Praze ve dnech 12.–14. listopadu 2025.

🏅 V závěru každého dne byly vyhlášeny nejlepší příspěvky z daných vědních oblastí.
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ready for winter! ❄️☃️🪻As winter in the northern hemisphere approaches, plants are preparing to be protected from cold ❄️
Read more on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/PJ0Vy
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #bud #clonality #overwintering #strategy @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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🫵👀Jak vypadal první den festivalu Týden Akademie věd? Natáčeli jsme na pracovištích v Praze a v budově na Národní třídě. Podívejte se sami, jak se žije vědou!
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Winning photograph of the European microscopy competition @eurobioimaging.bsky.social. The author is our colleague Tomáš Figura from the Dept. of Mycorrhizal Symbioses. Resembling a perfect summer holiday scene with a blue sea full of starfish, this is actually the seed surface of Alyssum alyssoides
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#Roots + #rhizomes + #buds = the “backup system” after #wildfire. Add the #soil #microbiome and you get real plant #resilience. Time to measure belowground #traits in #FireEcology🔥more ▶️ 1url.cz/IJIjY
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Resprouting #Brazil @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
To understand plant resilience to fire, look belowground
New research and commentary by Marco Antonio Chiminazzo from Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil. The photo above was taken by Marco Antonio Chiminazzo during a prescribed burn in Central Braz…
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October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Identifying fine roots is a frontier for belowground ecology!
In our new blog post ▶️ 1url.cz/lJZZl 🔴Fine Root Identification Protocol 🟠Root Kahoot🟢Rhidentify quiz🟤Rhizarium (2,000+ fine root images) #root
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The photo above shows a fine root from an eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). Photo by Grady Welsh.
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Photos of coastal cliffs blanketed in flowering ice plants (Carpobrotus) are helping scientists track how this invasive species spreads along shorelines. They analyzed of over 1,700 images from social media and citizen science platforms. Results: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
iEcology reveals the importance of geography and genetic makeup in the flowering phenology of invasive Carpobrotus taxa
Scientists use social media to track the flowering of an invasive coastal plant across six countries. Photographs from Instagram, iNaturalist and Google Maps showed that Carpobrotus plants flower at ...
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October 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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📢 Funded #PhD position!

🌿Interested in studying angiosperm macroevolution linking genome size, polyploidy and trait evolution? 🍀🌻🔬🧬 Join my group @ibotcz.bsky.social

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💬 Questions welcome!

#science #plants #polyploidy #genomesize #trait #evolution
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🧬Does DNA methylation inheritance differ in clonal and sexual offspring? In wild strawberry, we found higher methylation inheritance in clonal offspring linked to stronger transgenerational plasticity under climate stress.
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Stronger transgenerational plasticity in clonal compared to sexual offspring of Fragaria vesca: effects of drought, elevated temperature and CO2
AbstractBackground and Aims. Climate change threatens plant species, potentially exceeding their adaptive capacities. Plants may adapt to rapid environment
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October 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM