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 …

Multifaceted roles of duckweed in aquatic phytoremediation and bioproducts synthesis

Y Liu, H Xu, C Yu, G Zhou - Gcb Bioenergy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Duckweed (Lemnaceae) is a fast‐growing aquatic vascular plant. It has drawn an increasing
attention worldwide due to its application in value‐added nutritional products and in sewage …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater valorisation in an integrated multitrophic aquaculture system; assessing nutrient removal and biomass production by duckweed species

S Paolacci, V Stejskal, D Toner, MAK Jansen - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
The aquaculture industry is considered a key sector for the supply of high quality, nutritious
food. However, growth of the aquaculture sector has been slow, particularly in Europe, and …

Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging-based duckweed phenoty** to assess acute phytotoxic effects

V Oláh, A Hepp, M Irfan, I Mészáros - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Duckweeds (Lemnaceae species) are extensively used models in ecotoxicology, and
chlorophyll fluorescence imaging offers a sensitive and high throughput platform for …

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 …

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 …

A taxonomic revision of Lemna sect. Uninerves (Lemnaceae)

M Bog, KS Sree, J Fuchs, PTN Hoang, I Schubert… - Taxon, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lemna sect. Uninerves Hegelm. consists of three species, Lemna minuta Kunth
(synonym L. minuscula), L. valdiviana Phil. and L. yungensis Landolt. Lemna yungensis was …

Improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants: Bio-removal of heavy-metals and pharmaceuticals by Azolla filiculoides and Lemna minuta

E Bianchi, A Biancalani, C Berardi, A Antal… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the removal of Fe (III), Cr (VI), Al (III), diclofenac, and
levofloxacin from treated wastewater in the presence of the free-floating plants Azolla …