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Aim

Investigation of macro- and micro nutrient management strategies in plants, with emphasis on silicon, to improve crop productivity and tolerance to stress,  the role of nanomaterials in plant protection against stress.

 

Leader

Dr Diana Saja-Garbarz

Members

Marta Libik-Konieczny Franciszek Janowiak Monika Kula-Maximenko Piotr Waligórski
BIOCHEMISTRY ANTIOXIDANTS PLANT BIOLOGY HPLC ANALYSYES/PROTEIN PROFILING

 

Projects

-‘Exploring the mechanisms of the physiological role of silicon in plants’; Principal investigator: dr Diana Saja-Garbarz

 

Papers - 5 - the most important and recent in the field of project

Saja-Garbarz D., Libik-Konieczny M., Fellner M., Jurczyk B., Janowiak F. (2022) Silicon-induced alterations in the expression of aquaporins and antioxidant system activity in well-watered and drought-stressed oilseed rape. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 174: 73-86. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.01.033

Saja-Garbarz D., Ostrowska A., Kaczanowska K., Janowiak F. (2021) Accumulation of silicon and changes in water balance under drought stress in Brassica napus var. napus L. Plants, 10: 280. doi: 10.3390/agronomy12010110

Gorczyca A. Pociecha E. Maciejewska-Prończuk J. Kula-Maximenko M. Oćwieja M. (2021) Phytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles and silver ions toward common wheat. Surface Innovations, 10(1): 48-58. doi: 10.1680/jsuin.20.00094

Fedotova J.A., Kharchanka A.A., Fedotov A.K., Chichkov M.V., Malinkovich M. D. Konakov A. O. Vorobyova S. A. Kasiuk J. V. Gumiennik U. E. Kula-Maximenko M., Mitura-Nowak M., Maximenko A.A., Przewoźnik J., Kapusta Cz. (2020) Effect of magnetic Co–CoO particles on the carrier transport in monolayer graphene. Physics of the Solid State, 62: 368–377. doi; 10.1134/S1063783420020134

Moravcová S., Tůma J., Dučaiová Z.K., Waligórski P., Kula M., Saja D., Słomka A., Bąba W., Libik-Konieczny M. (2018) Influence of salicylic acid pretreatment on seeds germination and some defence mechanisms of Zea mays plants under copper stress. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 122: 19-30. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2017.11.007