National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

3 articles published in JoVE

• Biology

  
  Non-invasive Assay for Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Kinetics Determination during Early Stages of Arabidopsis De-etiolation Veronika Balakhonova*^1,2, Nadiia Pushkarova*^1,3, Jan Skalak^1,2, Tereza Dobisova^1,2,4, Zuzana Benedikty⁵, Klara Panzarova⁵, Martin Trtilek⁵, Jan Hejátko^{1,2 1}CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, ²National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, ³Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ⁴Labdeers s.r.o, ⁵Photon Systems Instruments, Prumyslova Here, we describe an advanced tool designed for chlorophyll biosynthesis monitoring during the early stages of Arabidopsis seedling de-etiolation. The novel methodology provides non-invasive real-time chlorophyll fluorescence imaging at high spatial and temporal resolution.

• Environment

  
  Mistletoe Eradicator - A Novel Tool for Simultaneous Mechanical and Chemical Control of Mistletoe Khurshid Ahmad Bhat¹, Sabina Akhtar², Naseer Ahmad Dar³, Mohammad Iqbal Bhat³, Farooq Ahmad Bhat¹, Rashid Rizwan⁴, Oleksii Horielov⁵, Yuliya Krasylenko^{6 1}Department of Plant Pathology, FOA Wadura Sopore, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, ²American University in the Emirates Dubai, ³Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Budgam, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, ⁴Department of Vegetable Science, FoH, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, ⁵Department of Dendrology, M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ⁶Department of Biotechnology, Palacký University Olomouc The protocol describes an easy-to-handle tool called Mistletoe Eradicator which combines mechanical and chemical approaches and is efficient in the control of mistletoe infestation on the host trees. The manuscript uses the European mistletoe (Viscum album subsp. album L.) as an example.

• Engineering

  
  Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures Sergey V. Borisenko¹, Volodymyr B. Zabolotnyy¹, Alexander A. Kordyuk^1,2, Danil V. Evtushinsky¹, Timur K. Kim^1,3, Emanuela Carleschi⁴, Bryan P. Doyle⁴, Rosalba Fittipaldi⁵, Mario Cuoco⁵, Antonio Vecchione⁵, Helmut Berger^{6 1}Institute for Solid State Research, IFW-Dresden, ²Institute of Metal Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ³Diamond Light Source LTD, ⁴Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, ⁵CNR-SPIN, and Dipartimento di Fisica "E. R. Caianiello", Università di Salerno, ⁶Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The overall goal of this method is to determine the low-energy electronic structure of solids at ultra-low temperatures using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation.