Evolution of night flowering in the Zingiberaceae family. How the species adapt to the night pollinators?
| Name: | Evolution of night flowering in the Zingiberaceae family. How the species adapt to the night pollinators? |
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| Researchers: |
Záveská Eliška (head – principal researcher) Dantas de Queiroz Marcos Vinicius (member of research team) Chumová Zuzana (member of research team) |
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| Number: | LUAUS24148 |
| Realization from: | 2024 |
| Realization to: | 2027 |
| Summary: | The project is focused on the study of day- and night-flowering members of the Zingiberaceae family by sequencing their genomes and transcriptomes. Analyzes of the sequencing data will make it possible to find those genes that are associated with one or the other type of flowering. The results of the analysis will be compared between species of the same genera and within the entire family and will be interpreted with regard to the degree of gene flow between the studied species. As part of the project, a functioning international collaboration with the staff of the Cornell University in the USA will be established, which will contribute to increasing the knowledge and educational level of the Czech Republic. The workplace of the American partner has long been among the leaders in the study of plant evolutionary developmental biology (so-called evo-devo) in non-model organisms, and this know-how will also be transferred to the Czech workplace as part of the working visits. |