Petr Smykal

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

2017 Associate Professorship in Botany, Palacky University in Olomouc
1999 Ph.D. in plant anatomy and physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague (Effect of high temperature on gene expression and developmental fate of plant cells.)
1994-99 post-graduate study at Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Dept. of Plant Physiology
1994 graduate as Diplom Ing. in Plant Biotechnology (equavialent to Master of Science), Czech University of Agriculture and Charles University in Prague

Agricultural Science Biodiversity Genetics Genomics Plant Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Palacký University Olomouc

Work details

Associate Professor

Palacký University Olomouc

September 2011

Department of Botany

Scientific Interest Genetic diversity, Crop Wild Relatives, ecological genomics, plant adaptation, phylogeneny of Fabeae, plant domestication, seed dormancy I am interested in study of legume seed dormancy (physical type of dormancy) one of the two key domestication traits using combination of anatomical, genetic, transcriptomics and analytical chemistry tools. Seed dormancy is also studied as adaptive trait in context of ecological genomics combining next generation sequencing, seed testing and geoinformatics using wild pea and Medicago truncatula HapMap resources and models. Transcriptomic analysis is applied to identify candicate genes in wild pea, along with Medicago truncatula mutants to study the respective gene function. Knowledge on Pisum genus diversity is applied to broaden the pea crop genetic diversity, the existing Crop Wild Relatives are used in series of introgression lines.

Websites

Departmenal webpage

PeerJ Contributions

Articles 1

January 14, 2019

Variation in wild pea (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius) seed dormancy and its relationship to the environment and seed coat traits

Iveta Hradilová, Martin Duchoslav, Jan Brus, Vilém Pechanec, Miroslav Hýbl, Pavel Kopecký, Lucie Smržová, Nikola Štefelová, Tadeáš Vaclávek, Michael Bariotakis, Jitka Machalová, Karel Hron, Stergios Pirintsos, Petr Smýkal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6263 PubMed 30656074