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2026

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D-Index
66
Citations
13503
World Ranking
8804
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Jozef Šamaj is affiliated with Palacký University, Olomouc in the Czech Republic. The primary fields of Šamaj's research encompass Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work extends across several subfields, notably Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biophysics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Šamaj's research addresses a range of main topics, including:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant responses to water stress

Frequent publication venues for Šamaj's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Plant Science, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Journal of Experimental Botany, and Molecular Plant. These venues reflect the focus and reach of their research within the plant sciences and molecular biology communities.

Some of the recently published papers authored or co-authored by Jozef Šamaj are:

  • Signaling Toward Reactive Oxygen Species-Scavenging Enzymes in Plants, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • YODA-HSP90 Module Regulates Phosphorylation-Dependent Inactivation of SPEECHLESS to Control Stomatal Development under Acute Heat Stress in Arabidopsis, 2020, Molecular Plant
  • Cytokinin fluoroprobe reveals multiple sites of cytokinin perception at plasma membrane and endoplasmic reticulum, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A Dual Strategy of Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Introducing Drought-Tolerant, Underutilized Crops into Production Systems to Enhance Their Resilience to Water Deficiency, 2020, Plants
  • Multifaceted roles of HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 molecular chaperones in plant development, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany

Šamaj has collaborated extensively, frequently co-authoring publications with several researchers, including:

  • Miroslav Ovečka
  • Tomáš Takáč
  • Olga Šamajová
  • Petr Dvořák
  • George Komis

The combination of Šamaj's research contributions reflects a focus on plant molecular biology with special attention to mechanisms of stress tolerance, developmental regulation, and molecular chaperones. Their involvement in multi-author collaborations and publications in recognized scientific journals supports a sustained presence within their research domains.

Best Publications

  • Root hair formation: F-actin-dependent tip growth is initiated by local assembly of profilin-supported F-actin meshworks accumulated within expansin-enriched bulges.

    František Baluška;František Baluška;Ján Salaj;Ján Salaj;Jaideep Mathur;Markus Braun

  • Endocytosis, actin cytoskeleton, and signaling.

    Jozef Šamaj;František Baluška;Boris Voigt;Markus Schlicht

  • Cytoskeleton-Plasma Membrane-Cell Wall Continuum in Plants. Emerging Links Revisited

    František Baluška;Jozef Šamaj;Przemyslaw Wojtaszek;Dieter Volkmann

  • F-Actin-Dependent Endocytosis of Cell Wall Pectins in Meristematic Root Cells. Insights from Brefeldin A-Induced Compartments

    František Baluška;Andrej Hlavacka;Jozef Šamaj;Klaus Palme

  • Endocytosis of cell surface material mediates cell plate formation during plant cytokinesis.

    Pankaj Dhonukshe;Pankaj Dhonukshe;František Baluška;František Baluška;Markus Schlicht;Andrej Hlavacka

  • The endocytic network in plants

    Jozef Šamaj;Jozef Šamaj;Nick D. Read;Dieter Volkmann;Diedrik Menzel

  • Mrs2p is an essential component of the major electrophoretic Mg2+ influx system in mitochondria.

    Martin Kolisek;Gabor Zsurka;Jozef Samaj;Julian Weghuber

  • Characterization of the unconventional myosin VIII in plant cells and its localization at the post-cytokinetic cell wall.

    Stefanie Reichelt;Alex E. Knight;Tony P. Hodge;Frantisek Baluska;Frantisek Baluska

  • Vesicular trafficking, cytoskeleton and signalling in root hairs and pollen tubes.

    Jozef Šamaj;Jens Müller;Martina Beck;Nils Böhm

  • Crosstalk between secondary messengers, hormones and MAPK modules during abiotic stress signalling in plants.

    Veronika Smékalová;Anna Doskočilová;George Komis;Jozef Šamaj

  • The LETM1/YOL027 Gene Family Encodes a Factor of the Mitochondrial K+ Homeostasis with a Potential Role in the Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome

    Karin Nowikovsky;Elisabeth M. Froschauer;Gabor Zsurka;Jozef Samaj

  • Transient plant transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Principles, methods and applications.

    Pavel Krenek;Olga Samajova;Ivan Luptovciak;Anna Doskocilova

  • GFP-FABD2 fusion construct allows in vivo visualization of the dynamic actin cytoskeleton in all cells of Arabidopsis seedlings

    Boris Voigt;Antonius C.J. Timmers;Jozef Šamaj;Jozef Šamaj;Jens Müller

  • Signaling Toward Reactive Oxygen Species-Scavenging Enzymes in Plants.

    Petr Dvořák;Yuliya Krasylenko;Adam Zeiner;Jozef Šamaj

  • A membrane microdomain-associated protein, Arabidopsis Flot1, is involved in a clathrin-independent endocytic pathway and is required for seedling development.

    Ruili Li;Peng Liu;Yinglang Wan;Tong Chen

  • Actin-based motility of endosomes is linked to the polar tip growth of root hairs.

    Boris Voigt;Antonius C.J. Timmers;Antonius C.J. Timmers;Jozef Šamaj;Jozef Šamaj;Andrej Hlavacka

  • Involvement of the mitogen‐activated protein kinase SIMK in regulation of root hair tip growth

    Jozef Šamaj;Miroslav Ovecka;Miroslav Ovecka;Miroslav Ovecka;Andrej Hlavacka;Fatma Lecourieux

  • Maize calreticulin localizes preferentially to plasmodesmata in root apex.

    Frantisek Baluska;Frantisek Baluska;Jozef Samaj;Jozef Samaj;Richard Napier;Dieter Volkmann

  • Arabidopsis MPK6 is involved in cell division plane control during early root development, and localizes to the pre-prophase band, phragmoplast, trans-Golgi network and plasma membrane.

    Jens Müller;Martina Beck;Ursula Mettbach;George Komis;George Komis

  • Arabidopsis homologs of nucleus- and phragmoplast-localized kinase 2 and 3 and mitogen-activated protein kinase 4 are essential for microtubule organization.

    Martina Beck;George Komis;George Komis;Jens Müller;Diedrik Menzel

Frequent Co-Authors

František Baluška
František Baluška University of Bonn
Miroslav Ovečka
Miroslav Ovečka Palacký University, Olomouc
Jinxing Lin
Jinxing Lin University of Minnesota
Diedrik Menzel
Diedrik Menzel University of Bonn
Dieter Volkmann
Dieter Volkmann University of Bonn
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ondřej Novák
Ondřej Novák Czech Academy of Sciences
Gerd Hause
Gerd Hause Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Miroslav Strnad
Miroslav Strnad Palacký University, Olomouc
Jiří Friml
Jiří Friml Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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