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 …

Duckweeds: their utilization, metabolites and cultivation

GY Baek, M Saeed, HK Choi - Applied Biological Chemistry, 2021 - Springer
Duckweeds are floating plants of the family Lemnaceae, comprising 5 genera and 36
species. They typically live in ponds or lakes and are found worldwide, except the polar …

[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 …

Engineering triacylglycerol accumulation in duckweed (Lemna japonica)

Y Liang, XH Yu, S Anaokar, H Shi… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Duckweed species genotyping and interspecific hybrid discovery by tubulin-based polymorphism fingerprinting

L Braglia, M Lauria, KJ Appenroth, M Bog… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Duckweeds (Lemnaceae) are the smallest and fastest-growing angiosperms. This feature,
together with high starch production and good nutritional properties, makes them suitable for …

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 …

Survival strategies of duckweeds, the world's smallest Angiosperms

P Ziegler, KJ Appenroth, KS Sree - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Duckweeds (Lemnaceae) are small, simply constructed aquatic higher plants that grow on
or just below the surface of quiet waters. They consist primarily of leaf-like assimilatory …

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 …