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From the history
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences was established in 1963 as a continuation of two Laboratories, the Laboratory of Geobotany & Floristics, and the Plant Biology Laboratory, established in 1953. The Institute had been temporary integrated (1975 to 1990) within a large Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences from which it split on July 1st 1990.
A brief characteristics of the Institute
Scientific activities of the Institute are concentrated on two main subjects. The first one is the research on
plant cover of the territory of Slovakia as related to the flora and vegetation of the Central Europe.
The key projects are multi-volume works Flora of lower and higher plants of Slovakia, and Survey of plant
communities of Slovakia. The second subject is research on structure and physiological functions of plant
roots, and on stress physiology.
The Institute is active in under- and postgraduate training in the fields of botany,
mycology, and plant physiology. The international journal
Biologia - Section Botany
is issued by the Institute. The Institute possesses
Collection of cyanophyces/cyanobacteria and
algae, and
Herbarium of lower and
higher plants registered in the Index Herbariorum.
The Institute comprises four scientific departments:
Department of Non-vascular Plants,
Department of Vascular Plant Taxonomy,
Department of Geobotany, and
Department of Plant Physiology,
Library and Technical and Economical Department.
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