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 …

Duckweed (Lemnaceae) for potentially nutritious human food: A review

J Xu, Y Shen, Y Zheng, G Smith, XS Sun… - Food Reviews …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
With continuous global population growth, the challenges of expanding demand for
sufficient and nutritious foods need to be addressed by exploring new and supplemental …

The effects of the Green-Mediterranean diet on cardiometabolic health are linked to gut microbiome modifications: A randomized controlled trial

E Rinott, AY Meir, G Tsaban, H Zelicha, A Kaplan… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Previous studies have linked the Mediterranean diet (MED) with improved
cardiometabolic health, showing preliminary evidence for a mediating role of the gut …

[HTML][HTML] Duckweed bioreactors: Challenges and opportunities for large-scale indoor cultivation of Lemnaceae

NE Coughlan, É Walsh, P Bolger, G Burnell… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lemnaceae, ie, duckweed species, have gained considerable attention as a sustainable
source of high-quality nutrition, biofuel, and pharmaceuticals, as well as effective organisms …

Duckweed (Lemnaceae): its molecular taxonomy

M Bog, KJ Appenroth, KS Sree - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Duckweeds include the world's smallest and fastest growing flowering plants that have the
capacity to produce huge biomass with a broad range of potential applications like …

Genome and time-of-day transcriptome of Wolffia australiana link morphological minimization with gene loss and less growth control

TP Michael, E Ernst, N Hartwick, P Chu… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Rootless plants in the genus Wolffia are some of the fastest growing known plants on Earth.
Wolffia have a reduced body plan, primarily multiplying through a budding type of asexual …

Duckweeds for phytoremediation of polluted water

Y Zhou, A Stepanenko, O Kishchenko, J Xu, N Borisjuk - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tiny aquatic plants from the Lemnaceae family, commonly known as duckweeds, are often
regarded as detrimental to the environment because of their ability to quickly populate and …

[HTML][HTML] Food proteins from plants and fungi

U Schweiggert-Weisz, P Eisner… - Current Opinion in Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Proteins from plants and fungi are gaining in importance for sustainable
nutrition.•Pulses are still the most important protein sources for ingredient production.•By …

Key to the determination of taxa of Lemnaceae: an update

M Bog, KJ Appenroth, KS Sree - Nordic Journal of Botany, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species of Lemnaceae have a high potential for fast biomass production, and this is
increasingly gaining attention among researchers in basic plant sciences as well as among …

Influence of light intensity and spectrum on duckweed growth and proteins in a small-scale, re-circulating indoor vertical farm

F Petersen, J Demann, D Restemeyer, HW Olfs… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Duckweeds can be potentially used in human and animal nutrition, biotechnology or
wastewater treatment. To cultivate large quantities of a defined product quality, a …