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  1. Translational and epitranscriptomic regulation of seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana genotypes with contrasting dormancy phenotypes

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  2. Biochemical Analysis of Recombinant Pea Seed Coat-Specific Polyphenol Oxidase (PeaPPO) in Relation to Various Phenolic Substrates

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, August 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  3. Application of modified ASAP-MS technique for direct analysis of plant microsamples and its potential for single pollen grain chemical characterization

    Article • Microchemical Journal, July 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  4. Genetic and transcriptomic analysis of lentil seed imbibition and dormancy in relation to its domestication

    Article • The Plant Genome, March 2025, Wiley

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  5. Modern Comprehensive Metabolomic Profiling of Pollen Using Various Analytical Techniques

    Article • Molecules, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  6. The Taxonomic Status of Genera within the Fabeae (Vicieae), with a Special Focus on Pisum

    Article • Diversity, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  7. The Taxonomic Status of Genera within the Fabeae (Vicieae), with a Special Focus on Pisum

    Article • June 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  8. Evolutionary pathways to lower biomass allocation to the seed coat in crops: insights from allometric scaling

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  9. Domestication has altered gene expression and secondary metabolites in pea seed coat

    Article • The Plant Journal, April 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  10. Genetic structure and ecological niche space of lentil's closest wild relative, Lens orientalis (Boiss.) Schmalh.

    Article • Plant Biology, January 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  11. Climate Change Dependence in Ex Situ Conservation of Wild Medicinal Plants in Crete, Greece

    Article • Biology, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  12. Domestication-related changes in seed dispersal and pigmentation: Visual selection and functional trait?

    Article • Molecular Plant, August 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  13. A Commemorative Issue in Honor of 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Gregor Johann Mendel: The Genius of Genetics

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Professor Eric von Wettberg

  14. Phenylpropanoid Content of Chickpea Seed Coats in Relation to Seed Dormancy

    Article • Plants, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  15. Environmental and agronomic determinants of hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) seed yield in rainfed temperate agroecosystems

    Article • European Journal of Agronomy, July 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  16. Domestication has altered the ABA and gibberellin profiles in developing pea seeds

    Article • Planta, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  17. Editorial: Genomics and phenomics of crop wild relatives (CWRs) for crop improvement

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, June 2023, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  18. Editorial: Genetics of domestication and diversification towards evolution of crop plants

    Article • Frontiers in Genetics, March 2023, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  19. The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop

    Article • Nature, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jihad Orabi, Professor Frederick Stoddard, Prof. Petr Smykal, Dr Hamid Khazaei

  20. Corrigendum: How could the use of crop wild relatives in breeding increase the adaptation of crops to marginal environments?

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, December 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  21. Editorial: Biological and genetic basis of agronomical and seed quality traits in legumes

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, September 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  22. The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Dr Hamid Khazaei

  23. The Key to the Future Lies in the Past: Insights from Grain Legume Domestication and Improvement Should Inform Future Breeding Strategies

    Article • Plant and Cell Physiology, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Manish Roorkiwal, Prof. Petr Smykal

  24. How Could the Use of Crop Wild Relatives in Breeding Increase the Adaptation of Crops to Marginal Environments?

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, June 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  25. Interspecific hybridization and plant breeding: From historical retrospective through work of Mendel to current crops

    Article • Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, June 2022, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  26. The loss of polyphenol oxidase function is associated with hilum pigmentation and has been selected during pea domestication

    Article • New Phytologist, June 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  27. Combination of electronically driven micromanipulation with laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry – The unique tool for analysis of seed coat layers and revealing the mystery of seed dormancy

    Article • Talanta, May 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  28. Aleksandar Mikić, the legume (re)searcher

    Article • Legume Science, January 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  29. Endangered Wild Crop Relatives of the Fertile Crescent

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Professor Eric von Wettberg

  30. Evaluation of Seed Dormancy, One of the Key Domestication Traits in Chickpea

    Article • Agronomy, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  31. Spontaneous Gene Flow between Cultivated and Naturalized Vicia villosa Roth Populations Increases the Physical Dormancy Seed in a Semiarid Agroecosystem

    Article • Agronomy, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  32. Anatomy and Histochemistry of Seed Coat Development of Wild (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius (M. Bieb.) Asch. et Graebn. and Domesticated Pea (Pisum sativum subsp. sativum L.)

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  33. Corrigendum: Editorial: Wild Plants as Source of New Crops

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, January 2021, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Professor Eric von Wettberg

  34. Wild Plants as Source of New Crops

    Article • January 2021, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Professor Eric von Wettberg

  35. Inheritance and Expressivity of Neoplasm Trait in Crosses between the Domestic Pea (Pisum sativum subsp. sativum) and Tall Wild Pea (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius)

    Article • Agronomy, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  36. Editorial: Wild Plants as Source of New Crops

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, September 2020, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Professor Eric von Wettberg

  37. A comparison of seed germination coefficients using functional regression

    Article • Applications in Plant Sciences, July 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Jitka Machalová

  38. Release of Medicago truncatula Gaertn. and Pisum sativum subsp. elatius (M. Bieb.) Asch. et Graebn. Seed Dormancy Tested in Soil Conditions

    Article • Agronomy, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  39. Legume Genetics and Biology: From Mendel’s Pea to Legume Genomics

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  40. Physical Dormancy Release in Medicago truncatula Seeds Is Related to Environmental Variations

    Article • Plants, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Jitka Machalová

  41. Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement

    Article • Legume Science, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  42. Diversity of Naturalized Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) Populations in Central Argentina as a Source of Potential Adaptive Traits for Breeding

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, February 2020, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  43. Plasticity of Medicago truncatula seed dormancy relates to large-scale environment variation

    Article • December 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  44. From wild harvest towards precision agriculture: Use of Ecological Niche Modelling to direct potential cultivation of wild medicinal plants in Crete

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  45. Genome-Wide Association Mapping for Agronomic and Seed Quality Traits of Field Pea (Pisum sativum L.)

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, November 2019, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  46. Correction to: Utilization of atmospheric solids analysis probe mass spectrometry for analysis of fatty acids on seed surface

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  47. Allelic Diversity of Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase accD/bccp Genes Implicated in Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Conflict in the Wild and Domesticated Pea (Pisum sp.)

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

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

    Article • PeerJ, January 2019, PeerJ

    Prof. Petr Smykal, Jitka Machalová

  49. Utilization of atmospheric solids analysis probe mass spectrometry for analysis of fatty acids on seed surface

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  50. The role of the testa during the establishment of physical dormancy in the pea seed

    Article • Annals of Botany, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  51. Molecular Evidence for Two Domestication Events in the Pea Crop

    Article • Genes, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  52. Author Correction: Genomic diversity and macroecology of the crop wild relatives of domesticated pea

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  53. The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication

    Article • Agronomy, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  54. Genetic structure of wild pea (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius) populations in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent reflects moderate cross-pollination and strong effect of geographic but not environmental distance

    Article • PLOS One, March 2018, PLOS

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  55. The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication on Healthy Food Development

    Article • Agronomy, March 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  56. Addendum: Cechová, M. et al. Towards Better Understanding of Pea Seed Dormancy Using Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2017, 18, 2196

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2017, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  57. Genomic diversity and macroecology of the crop wild relatives of domesticated pea

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  58. Towards Better Understanding of Pea Seed Dormancy Using Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2017, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  59. Patterns of Genetic Structure and Linkage Disequilibrium in a Large Collection of Pea Germplasm

    Article • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  60. ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF LEGUMES USING GLOBAL DATASETS

    Article • June 2017, STEF92 Technology

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  61. A Combined Comparative Transcriptomic, Metabolomic, and Anatomical Analyses of Two Key Domestication Traits: Pod Dehiscence and Seed Dormancy in Pea (Pisum sp.)

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, April 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  62. Eco-geographic distribution of Cicer isauricum P.H. Davis and threats to the species

    Article • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eric von Wettberg, Prof. Petr Smykal

  63. Spatial patterns and intraspecific diversity of the glacial relict legume species Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed. in Eurasia

    Article • Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Miloslav Kitner, Prof. Petr Smykal

  64. Erratum to: Developing biotechnology tools for ‘beautiful’ vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa), a legume crop wild relative with taxonomic and agronomic potential

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  65. Developing biotechnology tools for ‘beautiful’ vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa), a legume crop wild relative with taxonomic and agronomic potential

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  66. From Mendel’s discovery on pea to today’s plant genetics and breeding

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  67. Identification of QTL controlling high levels of partial resistance toFusarium solanif. sp.pisiin pea

    Article • Plant Breeding, June 2015, Wiley

    Niklaus J Grunwald, Prof. Petr Smykal

  68. Pea

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  69. Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

    Article • Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Manish Roorkiwal, Prof. Petr Smykal

  70. Erratum to: Beauty will save the world, but will the world save beauty? The case of the highly endangered Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

    Article • Planta, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  71. Beauty will save the world, but will the world save beauty? The case of the highly endangered Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.

    Article • Planta, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  72. The role of the testa during development and in establishment of dormancy of the legume seed

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2014, Frontiers

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  73. A comparative study of ancient DNA isolated from charred pea (Pisum sativum L.) seeds from an Early Iron Age settlement in southeast Serbia: inference for pea domestication

    Article • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  74. Geographical Gradient of the eIF4E Alleles Conferring Resistance to Potyviruses in Pea (Pisum) Germplasm

    Article • PLOS One, March 2014, PLOS

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  75. Advances in Pea Genomics

    Article • September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  76. User-friendly markers linked to Fusarium wilt race 1 resistanceFwgene for marker-assisted selection in pea

    Article • Plant Breeding, September 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  77. The bicentenary of the research on ‘beautiful’ vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa), a legume crop wild relative with taxonomic and agronomic potential

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  78. Peas

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  79. Core Hunter II: fast core subset selection based on multiple genetic diversity measures using Mixed Replica search

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  80. Enhanced accumulation of cadmium in Linum usitatissimum L. plants due to overproduction of metallothionein α-domain as a fusion to β-glucuronidase protein

    Article • Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  81. Pea (Pisum sativum L.) in the Genomic Era

    Article • Agronomy, April 2012, MDPI AG

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  82. Genetic diversity in European Pisum germplasm collections

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  83. Estimation of pea (Pisum sativum L.) microsatellite mutation rate based on pedigree and single-seed descent analyses

    Article • Journal of Applied Genetics, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  84. Legume genetic resources: management, diversity assessment, and utilization in crop improvement

    Article • Euphytica, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  85. Genetic diversity of cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) germplasm assessed by retrotransposon-based markers

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  86. The legume manifesto: (Net)workers on Fabaceae, unite!

    Article • Ratarstvo i povrtarstvo, January 2011, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  87. Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus

    Article • Plant Genetic Resources, November 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  88. Reports on establishing an ex situ site for ‘beautiful’ vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa) in Armenia

    Article • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  89. Molecular evidence of genetic diversity changes in pea (Pisum sativum L.) germplasm after long-term maintenance

    Article • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  90. iPBS: a universal method for DNA fingerprinting and retrotransposon isolation

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  91. The genetic diversity and evolution of field pea (Pisum) studied by high throughput retrotransposon based insertion polymorphism (RBIP) marker analysis

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  92. Marker assisted pea breeding: eIF4E allele specific markers to pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV) resistance

    Article • Molecular Breeding, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  93. Evolutionary conserved lineage of Angela-family retrotransposons as a genome-wide microsatellite repeat dispersal agent

    Article • Heredity, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  94. Genetic diversity and population structure of pea (Pisum sativum L.) varieties derived from combined retrotransposon, microsatellite and morphological marker analysis

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  95. Assessment of genetic and epigenetic stability in long-term in vitro shoot culture of pea (Pisum sativum L.)

    Article • Plant Cell Reports, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  96. Flowering of strict photoperiodic Nicotiana varieties in non-inductive conditions by transgenic approaches

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  97. Development of an efficient retrotransposon-based fingerprinting method for rapid pea variety identification

    Article • Journal of Applied Genetics, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  98. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Pisum sativum in vitro and in vivo

    Article • Biologia Plantarum, September 2005, Institute of Experimental Botany

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  99. Modulation of flowering responses in different Nicotiana varieties

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, May 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  100. Glycoproteins 66 and 69 kDa of pollen tube wall: properties and distribution in angiosperms

    Article • Journal of Plant Physiology, January 2001, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  101. Androgenesis: Affecting the fate of the male gametophyte

    Article • Physiologia Plantarum, January 2001, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  102. Pollen Embryogenesis - The Stress Mediated Switch from Gametophytic to Sporophytic Development. Current Status and Future Prospects

    Article • Biologia Plantarum, December 2000, Institute of Experimental Botany

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  103. A novel Brassica napus L. pollen-specific gene belongs to a nucleic-acid-binding protein family

    Article • Sexual Plant Reproduction, November 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  104. Isolation of a Brassica napus L. cDNA encoding a putative high-mobility-group HMG I/Y protein

    Article • Plant Science, November 2000, Elsevier

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  105. Chaperone activity of tobacco HSP18, a small heat-shock protein, is inhibited by ATP

    Article • The Plant Journal, September 2000, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  106. Molecular characterization of a calmodulin-like Dictyostelium protein CalB

    Article • FEBS Letters, May 2000, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal

  107. High-molecular-mass complexes formed in vivo contain smHSPs and HSP70 and display chaperone-like activity

    Article • FEBS Journal, April 2000, Wiley

    Prof. Petr Smykal