Application of common duckweed (Lemna minor) in phytoremediation of chemicals in the environment: State and future perspective

AO Ekperusi, FD Sikoki, EO Nwachukwu - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past 50 years, different strategies have been developed for the remediation of
polluted air, land and water. Driven by public opinion and regulatory bottlenecks, ecological …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Taxonomy of duckweeds (Lemnaceae), potential new crop plants.

KS Sree, M Bog, KJ Appenroth - Emirates Journal of …, 2016 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Duckweeds are increasingly gaining interest because of their potential as a new
aquaculture crop. In the present era of high throughput research, duckweed taxonomy has to …

Impact of mercury on photosynthetic performance of Lemna minor: a chlorophyll fluorescence analysis

H Singh, D Kumar, V Soni - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of chlorophyll fluorescence
analysis in detecting the effects of mercury (Hg) treatment in duckweed species Lemna …

Indigenous bacteria, an excellent reservoir of functional plant growth promoters for enhancing duckweed biomass yield on site

Y Khairina, R Jog, C Boonmak, T Toyama, T Oyama… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The advantages of aquatic biomass production using wastewater as a cost-free fertilizer
have recently been highlighted. Here, we report a successful study in which duckweed …

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 …

Assessing and Modelling the Efficacy of Lemna paucicostata for the Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Crude Oil-Contaminated Wetlands

AO Ekperusi, EO Nwachukwu, FD Sikoki - scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The potentials of the invasive duckweed species, Lemna paucicostata to remove pollutants
from aquatic environment was tested in a constructed wetlands as an ecological based …

Flavonoids from duckweeds: Potential applications in the human diet

D Pagliuso, CEP Jara, A Grandis, E Lam… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Duckweeds are the smallest free-floating flowering aquatic plants. Their biotechnological
applications include their use as food, bioenergy, and environmental sustainability, as they …

Aquatic Plants, Landoltia punctata, and Azolla filiculoides as Bio-Converters of Wastewater to Biofuel

AF Miranda, NR Kumar, G Spangenberg, S Subudhi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aquatic plants, Azolla filiculoides, and Landoltia punctate, were used as complementing
phytoremediators of wastewater containing high levels of phosphate, which simulates the …