Maria Krzakowa
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Biography
Maria Krzakowa works as Professor Senior at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Some years ago she did one- year training as Post Doc at the University of California Davis. She learned there enzymes detection by horizontal gel electrophoresis. At first, her scientific activity was concerned about genetic variation of natural populations of Bryophytes (different species of Hepatics and Mosses) and later on forest trees: Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), beech (Fagus sylvatica) and ash-tree (Fraxinus excelsior). In the meantime she developed investigations on grasses, for example Apera spica-venti and Alopecurus myosuroides. Her main achievement was the first description of dimeric peroxidise in reed (Phragmites australis). It was some kind of discovery, as dimeric peroxidise was known earlier only from the rice (Oryza sativa). Now, she is working on European collection of Italian and Westerwolds ryegrasses (Lolium spp.) considering biochemical and molecular polymorphism of these important forage grasses.