Preslia 91: 117–142, 2019 117 Genome sizes and genomic guanine+cytosine (GC) contents of the Czech vascular flora with new estimates for 1700 species Velikost genomu a genomický obsah guaninu a cytosinu (GC) českých cévnatých rostlin s novými měřeními pro 1700 druhů Petr Šmarda1, Ondřej Knápek1, Alexandra Březinová1, Lucie Horová1, Vít Grulich1, Jiří Danihelka1,2,PavelVeselý1, Jakub Šmerda1, Olga Rotreklová1 & Petr Bureš1 1Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-61137 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail:
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[email protected]; 2Insti- tute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic Šmarda P., Knápek O., Březinová A., Horová L., Grulich V., Danihelka J., Veselý P., Šmerda J., Rotreklová O. & Bureš P. (2019) Genome sizes and genomic guanine+cytosine (GC) contents of the Czech vascular flora with new estimates for 1700 species. – Preslia 91: 117–142. The content of DNA in the somatic, unreplicated cell nuclei (genome size) and DNA base compo- sition (GC content) are the basic genomic parameters that can be measured by flow cytometry. Genome size, or ploidy level, can affect many plant properties and are therefore included as important features in modern biological floras and plant trait databases. However, genomic data are still largely measured mainly for taxonomic and biosystematic purposes, and despite the pop- ularity of flow cytometry in the Czech Republic, this information is still missing for many of the vascular plants in the Czech flora.