About Journal

The journal Acta Botanica Croatica is the traditional botanical journal of southern Europe. This peer-reviewed journal (DOAJ, SCI, Scopus) is published twice a year (April, October) as an open-access journal, by the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. The interest of the journal is field (terrestrial and aquatic) and experimental botany including plant viruses, bacteria, archaea, algae and fungi, from subcellular level to the ecosystem level with a geographic focus on karstic areas of the southern Europe and the Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean).
Article submission and publishing are free of charge.

ISSN 0365-0588 (print), ISSN 1847-8476 (online)

Published: 31 March 2020

Preface from the New Editor-in-Chief

Nenad Jasprica

The effect of salinity gradient and heavy metal pollution on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure in some Algerian wetlands

Warda Sidhoum, Kheira Bahi, Zohra Fortas

Preliminary characterization of the Quercus pubescens complex in southern Italy using molecular markers

Romeo Di Pietro, Piera Di Marzio, Gaby Antonecchia, Antonio Luca Conte, Paola Fortini

Somatic embryogenesis as a tool for virus elimination in Croatian indigenous grapevine varieties

Nenad Malenica, Mateja Jagic, Bruno Pavletic, Natasa Bauer, Darko Voncina, Goran Zdunic, Dunja Leljak Levanic

Alien water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) outcompeted native macrophytes and altered the ecological conditions of a Sava oxbow lake (SE Slovenia)

Martina Jaklic, Spela Koren, Nejc Jogan

Coastal sand dune vegetation of Velika plaÅ¾a (Montenegro)

Danijela Stesevic, Filip Kuzmic, Djordjije Milanovic, Milica Stanisic-Vujacic, Urban Silc

A comparative anatomical study of the genus Puschkinia Adams in Turkey

Kadriye Yetisen, Hasan YÄ±ldÄ±rÄ±m, Canan Ozdemir

Morphology, anatomy, palynology and achene micromorphology of Bellis L. (Asteraceae) species from Turkey

Faruk Karahan

The impact of drying on bioactive compounds of blue honeysuckle berries (Lonicera caerulea var. edulis Turcz. ex Herder)

Mateja Senica, Franci Stampar, Sezai ErciÅŸli, Barbara Sladonja, Danijela Poljuha, Maja Mikulic Petkovsek

Chemical and morphological diversity among wild populations of Hypericum aviculariifolium Jaub. et Spach subsp. depilatum (Freyn et Bornm.) N. Robson var. depilatum

Cuneyt Cirak, Aysel Ã–zcan, Emine Yurteri, Dursun Kurt, Fatih Seyis

Optimizing irrigation and determining the most sensitive development stage to drought in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in a semi-arid environment

Leila Romdhane, Nicola Dal Ferro, Amor Slama, Leila Radhouane

Physcomitrium eurystomum Sendtn., new moss species in the bryophyte flora of Montenegro

Danijela Stesevic, Branko Andic, Milica Stanisic-Vujacic

Thirty-ninth EADSVE Meeting will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 2021

Nenad Jasprica

The Spiridion Brusina Medal for 2019 has been awarded to German plant biologist Professor Jutta Ludwig-MÃ¼ller

Branka Salopek Sondi