Return of the Lemnaceae: Duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and postgenomics era

K Acosta, KJ Appenroth, L Borisjuk, M Edelman… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The aquatic Lemnaceae family, commonly called duckweed, comprises some of the smallest
and fastest growing angiosperms known on Earth. Their tiny size, rapid growth by clonal …

One ring to rule them all? Genome sequencing provides new insights into the 'master circle'model of plant mitochondrial DNA structure

DB Sloan - New Phytologist, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The in vivo molecular structure of plant mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA) has been a long‐
standing source of intrigue and controversy. Recent deep sequencing analyses of …

[HTML][HTML] The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea

JL Olsen, P Rouzé, B Verhelst, YC Lin, T Bayer… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Seagrasses colonized the sea on at least three independent occasions to form the basis of
one of the most productive and widespread coastal ecosystems on the planet. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] The Spirodela polyrhiza genome reveals insights into its neotenous reduction fast growth and aquatic lifestyle

W Wang, G Haberer, H Gundlach, C Gläßer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The subfamily of the Lemnoideae belongs to a different order than other monocotyledonous
species that have been sequenced and comprises aquatic plants that grow rapidly on the …

Phylogenomics of the plant family Araceae

CL Henriquez, T Arias, JC Pires, TB Croat… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The biogeography, chromosome number evolution, pollination biology and evolutionary
history of the plant family Araceae have recently become much clearer (Cabrera et al., 2008 …

[PDF][PDF] Telling duckweed apart: genotyping technologies for the Lemnaceae

KJ Appenroth, N Borisjuk, E Lam - Chin. J. Appl. Environ. Biol, 2013 - researchgate.net
The family of Lemnaceae, commonly called duckweed, comprise five genera and 37 species
of aquatic monocotyledonous plants that are endemic to lakes, ponds and brackish water …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress of a potential bioreactor: Duckweed

GL Yang, D Feng, YT Liu, SM Lv, MM Zheng, AJ Tan - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, plant bioreactors have flourished into an exciting area of synthetic biology
because of their product safety, inexpensive production cost, and easy scale-up. Duckweed …

[HTML][HTML] Lemnaceae and Orontiaceae are phylogenetically and morphologically distinct from Araceae

NP Tippery, DH Les, KJ Appenroth, KS Sree… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Duckweeds comprise a distinctive clade of pleustophytic monocots that traditionally has
been classified as the family Lemnaceae. However, molecular evidence has called into …

Tiny plants with enormous potential: phylogeny and evolution of duckweeds

NP Tippery, DH Les - The duckweed genomes, 2020 - Springer
Duckweeds (family Lemnaceae) comprise 37 angiosperm species, which are distributed
among five genera. Although these tiny specimens represent the smallest flowering plants …

Completion of the mitochondrial genome sequence of onion (Allium cepa L.) containing the CMS-S male-sterile cytoplasm and identification of an independent event of the ccmF …

B Kim, K Kim, TJ Yang, S Kim - Current Genetics, 2016 - Springer
Cytoplasmic male-sterility (CMS) conferred by the CMS-S cytoplasm has been most
commonly used for onion (Allium cepa L.) F 1 hybrid seed production. We first report the …