On the cover:

The communities of Genista lydia are rare and confined to the south-east Balkans described by Kunev et al. (170–184). The photo (made by Georgi Kunev) shows a representative communities from the region of Dobrinishte, Western Rhodope Mts and the marble ridges of Pirin Mt.

Published: 24 September 2020

Influence of dehydration on cryopreservation of Musa spp. germplasm

99-104 Ergun Kaya, Selin Galatali, Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza, Janay Almeida Santos-Serejo

Validation of variants using cost effective high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis predicted from target re-sequencing in Eucalyptus

Modhumita Ghosh Dasgupta, Abdul Bari Muneera Parveen, Divya Lakshmanan

Biosynthesis and characterization of iron nanoparticles produced by Thymus vulgaris L. and their antimicrobial activity

114-120 Ramy S. Yehia, Ali M. Ali

Drought stress response in winter wheat varieties – changes in leaf proteins and proteolytic activities

121-130 Lyudmila Petrova Simova-Stoilova, Dobrina Pecheva, Elisaveta Kirova

Astragalus bartinense (Fabaceae), a new species from Turkey

131-136 Bilge Tunçkol, Zeki Aytaç, Necmi Aksoy, Ahter Fişne

Effects of TiO2 nanoparticles and spermine on antioxidant responses of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. to cold stress

137-147 Roya Karamian, Vahideh Kardavan Ghabel

Comparative transcriptome analysis of high-growth and wild-type strains of Pyropia yezoensis

148-156 Jong-il Choi, Kim Ngan Tran

Metabarcoding Cyanobacteria in coastal waters and sediment in central and southern Adriatic Sea

157-169 Anamarija Kolda, Zrinka Ljubešić, Ana Gavrilović, Jurica Jug-Dujaković, Kristina Pikelj, Damir Kapetanović

Phytosociological study of submontane genistoid scrub communities from the Southeastern Balkans

Georgi Iliev Kunev, Rossen Tzonev, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Kalina Pachedjieva

Effects of low and high irradiation levels on growth and PSII efficiency in Lemna minor L.

185-192 Hrvoje Lepeduš, Željka Vidaković-Cifrek, Iris Šebalj, Jasenka Antunović Dunić, Vera Cesar

Growth inhibition of the toxic cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii by extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields

Zakaria Mohamed, Fadel Ali, Medahat Abdel-Lateef, Asmaa Hosny

De novo transcriptome analysis of high growth rate Pyropia yezoensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) mutant with high utilization of nitrogen

201-211 Jong-il Choi, Seo-jeong Park

Colonization of bacteria and diatoms on an artificial substrate in a marine lake (eastern Adriatic Sea, NE Mediterranean)

212-227 Ana Car, Dubravka Hafner, Stijepo Ljubimir, Iris Dupčić Radić, Svjetlana Bobanović-Čolić, Nenad Jasprica

Citruses in Croatia - cultivation, major virus and viroid threats and challenges

228-235 Silvija Černi, Katarina Hančević, Dijana Škorić