Together
with Jiri Santrucek, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Academy of
Sciences, Budweis, Czech Republic the ecology of cuticular transpiration
is investigated (Karbulkova
et al. 2008).
Chemical
composition of cutin and waxes is analysed together with
Jose Graca, Centro de Estudos Florestais, Departamento de Engenharia
Florestal, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Tecnica de
Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Santos et
al. 2007).
Cutin and wax biosynthesis of Arabidopsis (Panikashvili et al. 2007) is investigated together with Asaph Aharoni, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
In
collaboration with Frank Pinot, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, CNRS,
University Strasbourg, France we are interested in the function of P450 hydroxylases involved in cutin, wax and suberin biosynthesis
(Kandel et al. 2007).
Together with Merce Figueras, University of Girona, Girona, Spain suberin biosynthesis in potato (Serra et al. 2009) is investigated.
In
collaboration with Ernst Steudle, Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth
we are working on the relationship between the chemical composition
of apoplastic barriers in roots and their properties as transport barriers
for water and oxygen (Schreiber
et al. 2005).
Radial oxygen loss across suberized root barriers (Soukup et al. 2007) is investigated together with Ales Soukup, Department of Plant Physiology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
The
effect of hypergravity on elongation growth and lignin formation in
Arabidopsis (Tamaoki
et al. 2006) is studied together with
Ichirou Karahara, Toyama University, Japan.
