The work of a research team led by Professor Jaroslav Doležel at the Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR has contributed to an article in the journal Science. The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium published a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome in the journal. The genetic blueprint of the wheat genome was obtained using the chromosome-based strategy developed by Professor Doležel’s team. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop. The genetic blueprint is an invaluable resource to plant science researchers and breeders. For the first time, they have at their disposal a set of tools enabling them to rapidly locate specific genes on individual wheat chromosomes throughout the genome. and Jaroslav Doležel.
Featured in this issue is an interview with Dr. Marek Hrubec, director of the Center of Global Studies, a joint workplace of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. Within the frame of his critical research of social misreco- gnition, Dr. Hrubec focuses mainly on current global injustice, global inequalities and global capitalism. His field of study is primarily political and social theory and philosophy. The interview was held on the occasion of the international conference Philosophy and Social Sciences, which took place on May 9-13, 2012 at Villa Lanna in Prague. and Martin Brabec.