A new plant-genomics laboratory was opened on 23rd April in Olomouc as part of the Institute of the Experimental Botany ASCR. The festive visitation of the lab was completed by Triticeae Genomics - Current Status and Utility of the Chromosome Based Strategies seminary. In the coming years, the new research establishment will be a part of an international wheat-genome-reading team, a prestigious task that can aid the understanding of one of the main crop-plants. and Jaroslav Doležel, Jan Kolář.