Plant evolution has been characterised by a series of major novelties in their vegetative and
reproductive traits that have led to greater complexity. Underpinning this diversification has …

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 …

Duckweeds are amongst the fastest growing of higher plants, making them attractive high‐
biomass targets for biofuel feedstock production. Their fronds have high rates of fatty acid …

Over 15 families of aquatic plants are known to use a strategy of developmental switching
upon environmental stress to produce dormant propagules called turions. However, few …

Abstract Background and Aims The Araceae are one of the most diverse monocot families
with numerous morphological and ecological novelties. Plastid and mitochondrial genes …

A spontaneous mutant of the duckweed Lemna gibba clone no. 7796 (known as strain G3,
WT) was discovered. In this mutant clone, L. gibba clone no. 9602 (mt), the morphological …

The Lemnaceae (duckweeds) are the world's smallest but fastest growing flowering plants,
with a drastically reduced morphology and predominant clonal reproductive habit capable of …

Heavy metals (HMs) contamination of water bodies severely threatens human and
ecosystem health. There is growing interest in the use of duckweeds for HMs biomonitoring …

The recent advancement of bioinformatics tools and next-generation sequencing (NGS) has
created enormous opportunities for a thorough understanding of quantitative (complex) traits …

Abstract Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains are integral to immune systems across all
kingdoms. In plants, TIRs are present in nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) …