Laboratory of Experimental Botany

Laboratory Head
doc. Ing. Ľuba Ďurišová, PhD.

Infrastructure

Scientific and Research Activities of the Laboratory

  • Archiving of collections: supplementation of herbarium specimen holdings and digitization (scanning) of herbarium material
  • Molecular and morphometric analyses of the polyploid Cotoneaster spp. complex
  • Germination trials of crops (proso millet, common soybean) following application of selected metal nanoparticles (zinc, titanium)
  • Germination and regeneration experiments on weeds Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass) and Panicum spp. (millets)

Solved Projects

  • VEGA 1/0359/22 Diverzita flóry a vegetácie a reprodukčné mechanizmy druhov agrocenóz a ich kontaktných zón (vedúci projektu doc. Ing. Pavol Eliáš, PhD.)

Publications

Kšiňan, Samuel; Ďurišová, Ľuba; Eliáš, Pavol. Genome size estimation of Cotoneaster species (Rosaceae) from the Western Carpathians. In: Biologia. 76, 7 (2021), s. 2067-2078. ISSN 0006-3088.

Kšiňan, Samuel; Ďurišová, Ľuba; Eliáš, Pavol. Morphological characteristics as a key attribute for a successful determination of selected Cotoneaster species. In: Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica. 23, 1 (2020), s. 15–23. ISSN 1335-258X.

Kotlárová, Nikola. Preliminary results of rhizome regeneration of the quarantine weed Sorghum halepense. In Scientific Conference of PhD. Students of FAFR, FBFS and FHLE SUA in Nitra with international participation. Nitra : Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita. (2023), s. 48. ISBN 978-80-552-2660-6.

Other publications are currently in the manuscript stage.

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