Institute of Botany

• plant tissue culture, morphogenesis in vitro and micropropagation
• the influence of heavy metals on plants and plant cells in in vivo and in vitro conditions (tolerance mechanisms and cell response; regeneration of tolerant genotypes; influence on biosynthesis of cyclic peptides - cyclotides)
• mechanisms of programmed cell death (PCD) induced by abiotic stresses (e.g. heavy metals)

• ETIUDA 7, National Science Centre; 2019 – 2020, project title: “Metal accumulation and tolerance to zinc and lead of suspension-cultured cells of selected Viola L. species from metalliferous and non-metalliferous soils – constitutive tolerance to heavy metals in the genus Viola”, project no: 2019/32/T/NZ8/00451
• PRELUDIUM 14, National Science Centre; 2018 – 2021, project title: “Cell suspension culture of selected Viola L. species to study zinc and lead accumulation and cell tolerance to heavy metal stress as a model to demonstrate evolutionary developed tolerance in the genus Viola”, project no: 2017/27/N/NZ8/00949

• OPUS 13, National Science Centre; 2018 – 2021, project title: “Badanie mechanizmu degeneracji woreczków zalążkowych i aborcji kwiatów jako przyczyny słabego zawiązywania nasion gryki zwyczajnej (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.)”, project no: 2017/25/B/NZ9/00148
• HORhn, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; 2015 – 2016, project title: „Badanie możliwości zwiększenia żywotności i stopnia zapylenia kwiatów gryki zwyczajnej w celu uzyskania wyższego plonu nasion”, project no: 078/PB/34/14
• Homing Plus, Foundation for Polish Science; 2013 – 2015, project title: „Species delimitation - combining morphometric, molecular and experimental approaches”, project no: HOMING PLUS/2012-5/8

Agnieszka Płażek, Katarzyna Hura, Tomasz Hura, Aneta Słomka, Marta Hornyák, Klaudia Sychta. Synthesis of HSP-70 and HSP-90 in flowers of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) under thermal stress. Crop and Pasture Science, 2020, accepted for publication, doi: 10.1071/CP20011.

Maria Pilarska, Ewa Niewiadomska, Klaudia Sychta, Aneta Słomka. Differences in the functioning of photosynthetic electron transport between metallicolous and non-metallicolous populations of the pseudometallophyte Viola tricolor. Journal of Plant Physiology, 2020, 250: 153185, doi: 10.1016/j.jplph.2020.153185.

Klaudia Sychta, Aneta Słomka, Elżbieta Kuta. Garden pansy (Viola x wittrockiana) – a good candidate for the revitalization of polluted areas. Plant, Soil and Environment, 2020, 66(6): 272-280, doi: 10.17221/50/2020-PSE.

Klaudia Sychta, Ewa Dubas, Kenji Yamada, Aneta Słomka, Monika Krzewska, Elżbieta Kuta. Papain-like cysteine proteases are involved in programmed cell death in plants under heavy metal stress. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2020, 174: 104041, doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104041.

Klaudia Sychta, Aneta Słomka, Elwira Sliwinska, Grzegorz Migdałek, Elżbieta Kuta. From cells highly tolerant to Zn and Pb to fully fertile plants – Selection of tolerant lines with in vitro culture. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020, 146: 231-237, doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.11.024.

Agnieszka Płażek, Aneta Słomka, Przemysław Kopeć, Michał Dziurka, Marta Hornyák, Klaudia Sychta, Jakub Pastuszak, Franciszek Dubert. Effects of high temperature on embryological development and hormone profile in flowers and leaves of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench). International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, 20(7): 1705, doi: 10.3390/ijms20071705.

Monika Kwiatkowska, Justyna Żabicka, Grzegorz Migdałek, Piotr Żabicki, Marlena Cubała, Jerzy Bohdanowicz, Aneta Słomka, Monika Jędrzejczyk-Korycińska, Elwira Sliwinska, Klaudia Sychta, Thomas Marcussen, Kevin Thiele, Elżbieta Kuta. Comprehensive characteristics and genetic diversity of the endemic Australian Viola banksii (section Erpetion, Violaceae). Australian Journal of Botany, 2019, BT18233, doi: 10.1071/BT18233.

Klaudia Sychta, Aneta Słomka, Szymon Suski, Elżbieta Fiedor, Ewa Gregoraszczuk, Elżbieta Kuta. Suspended cells of metallicolous and nonmetallicolous Viola species tolerate, accumulate and detoxify zinc and lead. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2018, 132: 666-674, doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.10.013. 

Klaudia Sychta, Aneta Słomka, Elżbieta Kuta. Kultury zawiesinowe komórek jako model do badania tolerancji roślin na metale ciężkie. Kosmos – problemy nauk biologicznych, 2018, 67(2): 335-346.

Klaudia Sychta, Janusz Szklarzewicz, Aneta Słomka, Ewa Gregoraszczuk, Elżbieta Kuta. Critical factors besides treatment dose and duration need to be controlled in Pb toxicity tests in plant cell suspension cultures. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2017, 86(3): 3555; doi: 10.5586/asbp.3555.

Aneta Słomka, Klaudia Michno, Franciszek Dubert, Michał Dziurka, Przemysław Kopeć, Agnieszka Płażek. Embryological background of low seed set in distylous common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) with biased morph ratios, and biostimulant-induced improvement of it. Crop and Pasture Science, 2017, 68(7): 680-690, doi: 10.1071/CP17009.

Daniel Stec, Piotr Gąsiorek, Witold Morek, Paulina Kosztyła, Krzysztof Zawierucha, Klaudia Michno, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Zofia M. Prokop, Łukasz Michalczyk. Estimating optimal sample size for tardigrade morphometry. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, 178(4): 776-784, doi: 10.1111/zoj.12404.

Paulina Kosztyła, Daniel Stec, Witold Morek, Piotr Gąsiorek, Krzysztof Zawierucha, Klaudia Michno, Krzysztof Ufir, Dariusz Małek, Kasper Hlebowicz, Alicja Laska, Magdalena Dudziak, Marcus Frohme, Zofia M. Prokop, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Łukasz Michalczyk. Experimental taxonomy confirms the environmental stability of morphometric traits in taxonomically challenging group of microinvertebrates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, 178(4): 765-775, doi: 10.1111/zoj.12409.

Mateusz Sobczyk, Klaudia Michno, Paulina Kosztyła, Daniel Stec, Łukasz Michalczyk. Tolerance to ammonia of Thulinius ruffoi (Bertolani, 1981), a tardigrade isolated from a sewage treatment plant. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2015, 95(6): 721-727, doi: 10.1007/s00128-015-1593-6.