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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of our journal

13-11-2023

Dear readers, authors, and reviewers,

Our journal Acta Botanica Croatica will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025.  The Publisher and the editorial team have decided to celebrate this precious occasion with the publication of the anniversary issue so we invite you to submit your manuscripts by 1st April 2024.

Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested.

Yours sincerely,

Mirta Tkalec and Nenad Jasprica

Editors-in-Chief

Vol. 84 No. 1 (2025)

On the cover:
Seed dormancy and germination of Convolvulus persicus L., an endemic species of the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, are reported by Bahadornejad Velashedi et al. (pp. 44–53).

Published: 31 March 2025

Leaf phenotypic plasticity of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) at its northern range in Dinaric Alps

1-11 Antonio Vidaković, Sandi Matijašević, Katarina Tumpa, Igor Poljak

The anatomy, micromorphology, and essential oils of the Turkish endemic and endangered species Alchemilla orduensis

12-21 Öznur Ergen Akçin, Tuğba ÖZBUCAK, Şükran ÖZTÜRK, Hüseyin Ümit Uzunömeroğlu

Rapid spread of the Mediterranean glycophyte Catapodium rigidum in Hungary

22-26 Norbert Bauer, János Csiky, Attila Mesterházy, Mátyás Wolf, Dávid Schmidt

Additional data on the ongoing naturalization of the non-native woody plant Duranta erecta (Verbenaceae) in Sicily, Italy

27-32 Salvatore Pasta, Pietro Lo Cascio, Emilio Badalamenti

Seed morphological diversity of Egyptian Allium L. (Amaryllidaceae) and its taxonomic significance

33-43 Iman H. Nour, Ahmed K. Osman, Rim S. Hamdy, Ibrahim A. El Garf

Overcoming seed dormancy and improving germination of Convolvulus persicus, an endangered coastal plant in north of Iran

44-53 Razieh Bahadornejad Velashedi, Sedigheh Kelij, Naser Jafari

Reproductive biology of Centaurea kilaea (Asteraceae, Cardueae) – an endemic species from Türkiye

54-62 Ciler Kartal

Cymbella stomachsis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta; Cymbellaceae), a new species from Guangdong Province, China

63-69 Yi-Han Zhao, Ji-Shu Guo, Zheng-Bin Tang, Yun Zhang, Shao-Feng Huang, John Patrick Kociolek, Yan-Ling Li

Combined application of rutin and silicon sustains maize seedlings osmotic stress tolerance by improving photosynthetic capacity and chlorophyll metabolism

70-80 Asiye Sezgin Muslu, Cansu Altuntaş, Namuun Altansambar, Mehmet Demiralay, Asim Kadıoğlu

Sulfur deficiency reduces the thermotolerance of Heliotropium thermophilum to high temperatures

81-90 Ece Nisa İmamoğlu, Aykut Sağlam, Asim Kadıoğlu

Indications of programmed cell death in wheat roots upon exposure to silver nanoparticles

91-100 Fatma Yanık, Filiz Vardar

Carex distachya (Cyperaceae) with both subspecies in Europe

101-104 Jacob Koopman, Helena Więcław, Sandro Bogdanovic, Teodor T. Denchev

First record of the Pisutiella phaeothamnos in the western Mediterranean

105-106 Gregorio Aragón, Valerie Negrón García, Gil Fernando Giménez
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