
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 |
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Members
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| 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




