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Research
The Laboratory for Plant Molecular Biology (LPMB) has been established by Vesna Maksimovic, PhD in 2002. Using different methodological approaches and various model organisms we investigate:
- the cellular processes occurring in plants in response to the stress in CRISPR-Cas knockout and/or knockdown as well as overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.
- the leaf transcriptome and metabolome in maize with the aim to find novel molecular markers involved in low temperature and water deficit stress tolerance.
- the cell-cell communications between plants and the plant growth promoting bacteria
- population-genetics and phylogeographic aspects as well as evolutionary relations of plant species aiming at improving agronomically important and conserving wild, endemic plant species, and protect the environment
- the molecular bases of important cellular processes: genome integrity protection, resistance to desiccation and recycling of oxidatively damaged biomolecules in Ustilago maydis
Current projects
- IMGGE work program for 2021
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, 451-03-9/2021-14/200042, 2021
Principal Investigator: Dr Jelena Begovic, IMGGE
Participants from IMGGE: all employed researchers - Project: Defining strategies for in situ and ex situ conservation of Serbian spruce with respect to climate change (SInExPAN)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of the Republic of Srpska 19/6-020/961-42/18, 2019-2020
Principal Investigator: Prof. dr. Milan Mataruga, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Jelena Aleksic - CEEPUS network “Managing forests for climate change”
Principal Investigator: Prof. dr. Milan Mataruga, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
European Union, CIII-BA-0000-00-1920, 2019-
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Jelena Aleksic - Plant health bioinformatics network
EUPHRESCO, 2019-2022
Project coordinator: Annelies Haegeman, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Belgium
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Bojana Banovic Djeri, dr Jelena Samardzic - European Epitranscriptomics Network (EPITRAN)
COST Action, CA16120, 2017-2021
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Bojana Banovic Djeri, dr Gordana Timotijevic - OxInDisPro - Overexpression of intrinsically disordered protein ATDSS1 in different plant systems – an analysis of its role in response to the oxidative stress
Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration Program: Knowledge Exchange Vouchers, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 6473515, 2020-2021
Principal Investigator: Dr Gordana Timotijevic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Ivana Nikolic - Safeguarding Unique Biodiversity of Drina Valley Environment: Assessment Study Serbia - Molecular-genetics study of Serbian Spruce on the territory of the National Park Tara
Cross-border Programme Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) of the European Commission, 48-00-00046/2016-28-6-T2
Principal Investigator: Marijana Josipovic, National Park Tara
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Jelena M. Aleksic - Clonal selection of autochthonous and regional grape varieties
National project of the Directorate for Agrarian Payments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, 320-45-02033/3/2019-02, 2019-2020
Projekt Leader: Darko Jaksic, Center for Viticulture and Oenology, Nis
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Jelena M. Aleksic - Combining high-throughput PhenOtypINg with Transcriptomics to identify Drought tolerant Maize inbred lines at the vegetative stage (POINTeD Maize)
European Plant Phenotyping Network 2020 (EPPN2020), ID 422, 2020-2021
Project coordinator: Dr Dejan Dodig, Maize Research Institute “Zemun Polje”
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Bojana Banović Djeri - The usage of silicon fertilisation in order to mitigate the oxidative stress and to improve the resilience of barley subjected to UV and drought
Research project within scientific and technological cooperation between Republic of Serbia and Republic of Slovenia, 2020-2022
Principal investigator: Dr Marija Vidovic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Dr Dragana Bosnic - LEAPSyn-SCI – Late Embryogenesis Abundant Proteins: Structural Characterisation and Interaction with α-Synuclein
Program for excellent projects of young researchers (PROMIS), Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 6039663, 2020-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr Marija Vidovic, IMGGE
Participant from IMGGE: Strahinja Stevanovic - Developing test for molecular detection and pathotype determination of Pepper Mild Mottle virus
Proof of Concept, Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 5557, 2020-2021
Principal Investigator: Dr Bojana Banovic Djer
Participants from IMGGE: Dr Milena Ugrin, Sofija Nesic
Selected publications
- Silicon alleviates copper (Cu) toxicity in cucumber by increased Cu-binding capacity
Bosnić D, Nikolić D, Timotijević G, Pavlović J, Vaculík M, Samardžić J, Nikolić M
Plant Soil 2019;441:629-641 - Genomic data provide new insights on the demographic history and the extent of recent material transfers in Norway spruce
Chen J, Li L, Milesi P, Jansson G, Berlin M, Karlsson B, Aleksić MJ, Vendramin GG, Lascoux M
Evol Appl 2019;12(8):1539-1551 - Serbian spruce and climate change: Possible outcomes and conservation strategy
Ivetić V, Aleksić JM
2019;pp.353-371
In: Šijačić-Nikolić M., Milovanović J., Nonić M. (eds) Forests of Southeast Europe Under a Changing Climate. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 65. Springer, Cham - A comparative study of liquid holding restitution of viability after oxidative stress in Ustilago maydis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell populations
Milisavljevic M, Kojic M
Fungal Genet Biol 2020;134:103284 - Silicon Alleviates Iron Deficiency in Barley by Enhancing Expression of Strategy II Genes and Metal Redistribution
Nikolic DB, Nesic S, Bosnic D, Kostic L, Nikolic M, Samardzic JT
Front Plant Sci 2019;10:416 - Revealing new information from existing genomic data for pepper mild mottle virus pathotype determination
Banović Đeri B, Pajić V, Dudić D
Crop Prot 2018;107:93-103 - Collaboration in the actions of Brh2 with resolving functions during DNA repair and replication stress in Ustilago maydis
Kojic M, Milisavljevic M, Holloman WK
DNA Repair (Amst) 2018;63:47-55 - Bioavailability of Nutritional Resources From Cells Killed by Oxidation Supports Expansion of Survivors in Ustilago maydis Populations
Milisavljevic M, Petkovic J, Samardzic J, Kojic M.
Front Microbiol 2018;9:990 - Anti-encephalitogenic effects of cucumber leaf extract
Jevtic B, Djedovic N, Stanisavljevic S, Gasic U, Misic D, Despotovic J S, Samardzic J, Miljkovic Dj, Timotijevic G
J Funct Foods 2017;37:249-262 - Silicon enhances leaf remobilization of iron in cucumber under limited iron conditions
Pavlovic J, Samardzic J, Kostic L, Laursen KH, Natic M, Timotijevic G, Schjoerring JK, Nikolic M
Ann Bot 2016;118(2):271-280
Contact
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Tel: +381 11 3976414
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