ArticleThe Plant cell2021
Return of the Lemnaceae: duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and postgenomics era.
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- Sustainable phosphorus recovery and starch-protein-rich biomass generation from wastewater via duckweed.iScience · 2026Article
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- Trophic Diversity in Duckweed: Mixotrophy, More Than the Sum of its Extremes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Triploidy is prominent in the duckweed Lemna minor complex.Communications biology · 2026Article
- High-value biochar from sunflower husk pyrolysis enhances growth and physiological performance of Spirodela polyrhiza.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Duckweed: Research Meets Applications-2nd Edition.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Temperature-Dependent Clonal and Species-Level Growth Variation inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Strain, procedures, and tools for reproducible genetic transformation and genome editing of the emerging plant model Spirodela polyrhiza.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- The perfect storm in a coastal pond: duckweed, botulism, bird mortalities, and recurrent blooms of Euglena sanguinea.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Article
- Hybridity of mainly asexually propagating duckweeds in genus Lemna - dead end or breakthrough?The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Biochemical characterization of xyloglucan galactosyltransferases MUR3 and XLT2 from Spirodela polyrhiza.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Genome sequence assembly of the 5S rDNA loci informs haplotype specificity and evolution in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Exploring Duckweed Diversity at the Dawn of Its Cultivation Era: The Invaluable Legacy of the Landolt Collection.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Duckweeds: Model organisms for research on plant sterols and steroids.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Review
- Cryopreservation by Vitrification for the Aquatic Plant Family Lemnaceae.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Introducing a Novel Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Using Duckweed as a Model System.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
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Abstract
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 propagation, and facile uptake of labeled compounds from the media were attractive features that made them a well-known model for plant biology from 1950 to 1990. Interest in duckweed has steadily regained momentum over the past decade, driven in part by the growing need to identify alternative plants from traditional agricultural crops that can help tackle urgent societal challenges, such as climate change and rapid population expansion. Propelled by rapid advances in genomic technologies, recent studies with duckweed again highlight the potential of these small plants to enable discoveries in diverse fields from ecology to chronobiology. Building on established community resources, duckweed is reemerging as a platform to study plant processes at the systems level and to translate knowledge gained for field deployment to address some of society's pressing needs. This review details the anatomy, development, physiology, and molecular characteristics of the Lemnaceae to introduce them to the broader plant research community. We highlight recent research enabled by Lemnaceae to demonstrate how these plants can be used for quantitative studies of complex processes and for revealing potentially novel strategies in plant defense and genome maintenance.
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