Here, we present a brief introduction to sixteen full-text research articles of the Special Issue “Progress in Slovak Botany: a successful path to modern research on flora and vegetation” which are more-less a reflection of the current state of the study of botany in Slovakia. The papers bring results of classification and syntaxonomical revision of shrubs and forest vegetation, followed by research into vegetation diversity, ecology, and taxonomy. Special attention is paid to molecular methods in the research of plant taxa; one of the contributions evaluates the use of these methods in the study of population genetics of forest trees in Slovakia in the past 40 years. The other three papers use the knowledge of flow cytometry for a taxonomic study of selected representatives of the genera Tanacetum, Cotoneaster, Solanum and Nicotiana. A special issue also includes a new version of the checklist and a red list of hornworts and liverworts which updates data published 20 years ago. The checklist is followed by a paper on new localities and phylogenetic relationships of Leucoglossum leucosporum, a geoglossoid fungus whose occurrence is poorly known. The last two contributions are devoted to the impact of the environmental burdens on biota.

在这里，我们简要介绍了特刊“斯洛伐克植物学进展：现代植物和植被研究的成功之路”的 16 篇全文研究文章，这些文章或多或少地反映了植物学研究的现状。斯洛伐克的植物学。这些论文带来了灌木和森林植被的分类和句法修正的结果，其次是对植被多样性、生态学和分类学的研究。在植物分类群的研究中特别注重分子方法；其中一项贡献评估了过去 40 年来在斯洛伐克森林树木种群遗传学研究中使用这些方法的情况。其他三篇论文使用流式细胞术的知识对选定的Tanacetum属的代表进行分类研究，Cotoneaster、茄属植物和烟草属植物。一期特刊还包括一份新版本的清单，以及一份更新了 20 年前发布的数据的金鱼草和苔类植物红色清单。该清单之后是一篇关于Leucoglossum leucosporum 的新位置和系统发育关系的论文，Leucoglossum leucosporum 是一种发生情况鲜为人知的地舌真菌。最后两个贡献致力于环境负担对生物群的影响。