Research/Scientific interest:
Correlations between structure and function of plastids and their interconversions
- Plastids and stress: effect of abiotic (heavy metal, light, salt and drought) and biotic (e.g., mycorrhization) stress on the structure and function of plastids
- Functional characterization and roles of ion channels and transporters in the organization of the thylakoid membranes, in photosynthesis and adaptation to stress
- Thylakoid biogenesis; chlorophyll biosynthesis, etiolated plants grown under natural conditions or in the laboratory and their greening
- Plastid-derived natural products used by the food industry and medicine (e.g., carotenoids, condensed tannins, terpenoids, vitamins B1, B2, B3, B9, E and K1)
Most important cooperations:
- ELTE Department of Plant Anatomy – dr. Áron Keresztes
- ELTE Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology – dr. Éva Sárvári, dr. Ádám Solti
- ELTE Savaria University Center, Department of Plant Science – dr. Anna Skribanek
- ELTE Department of Microbiology - dr. Tamás Felföldi
- Biological Research Centre of the HAS – Prof. Győző Garab, dr. Ottó Zsíros
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the HAS – dr. Márton Markó, dr. Gergely Nagy, dr. Renáta Ünnep
- Jagiellonian University, Poland – Dr. Beata Mysliwa-Kurdziel
- University of Gothenburg, Sweden – Prof. Henrik Aronsson, Prof. Cornelia Spetea
- Université du Maine, France – Prof. Benoit Schoefs
- INRA/SupAgro/Université de Montpellier, France – Prof. Jean-Marc Brillouet