Biodiversity and ecology, conservation and sustainable use of plant diversity, sustainable use of resources, climate protection
Biodiversity informatics: Information about organisms and development of powerful software solutions and services for "taxonomically intelligent" processing of biological knowledge
Evolution, taxonomy of plants: Understanding of species barriers and intraspecific variability, historical genesis of biodiversity
Molecular biology
Scientific collections: Morphological and anatomical analyses
Regional research to study plant diversity: Focus on Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, Cuba, and the Caribbean
