Plant Bodies

Prof. Dr. Jitka Klimešová conducts her research at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences and her main interest is plant functional morphology. Her research interests include creating a database of clonal and bud bank traits for the flora of Central Europe, testing the functionality of morphological traits in experiments, and doing evolutionary analyses of different plant traits and environmental parameters for the whole flora.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Growth forms of plants.- 3. Comparative morphology.- 4. Plant architecture.- 5. Conclusion Boxes.- Index.