ArticleBMC plant biology2021
Frond architecture of the rootless duckweed Wolffia globosa.
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- Duckweed Is a Promising Feedstock of Biofuels: Advantages and Approaches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
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- Developmental diversity in meristem organization: lessons from non-canonical plant body plans for biotechnology.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Species-level profiling ofPeerJ · 2026Article
- Structural and functional properties of bacterial communities associated with rootless duckweed (Wolffia globosa) and their effect on the Wolffia growth.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Atypical epigenetic and small RNA control of degenerated transposons and their fragments in clonally reproducingGenome research · 2025Article
- Wolffia globosa, a novel crop species for protein production in space agriculture.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Duckweeds as edible vaccines in the animal farming industry.3 Biotech · 2024Review
- Plant developmental oddities.Planta · 2024Review
- The evolution of the duckweed ionome mirrors losses in structural complexity.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Wolffia arrhiza and comparative genomic analysis with relative Wolffia species.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of altered gravity on growth and morphology in Wolffia globosa implications for bioregenerative life support systems and space-based agriculture.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe plant body in duckweed species has undergone reduction and simplification from the ancient Spirodela species towards more derived Wolffia species. Among the five duckweed genera, Wolffia members are rootless and represent the smallest and most reduced species. A better understanding of Wolffia frond architecture is necessary to fully explore duckweed evolution.
resultsWe conducted a comprehensive study of the morphology and anatomy of Wolffia globosa, the only Wolffia species in China. We first used X-ray microtomography imaging to reveal the three-dimensional and internal structure of the W. globosa frond. This showed that new fronds rapidly budded from the hollow reproductive pocket of the mother fronds and that several generations at various developmental stages could coexist in a single W. globosa frond. Using light microscopy, we observed that the meristem area of the W. globosa frond was located at the base of the reproductive pocket and composed of undifferentiated cells that continued to produce new buds. A single epidermal layer surrounded the W. globosa frond, and the mesophyll cells varied from small and dense palisade-like parenchyma cells to large, vacuolated cells from the ventral to the dorsal part. Furthermore, W. globosa fronds contained all the same organelles as other angiosperms; the most prominent organelles were chloroplasts with abundant starch grains.
conclusionsOur study revealed that the reproductive strategy of W. globosa plants enables the rapid accumulation of biomass and the wide distribution of this species in various habitats. The reduced body plan and size of Wolffia are consistent with our observation that relatively few cell types are present in these plants. We also propose that W. globosa plants are not only suitable for the study of structural reduction in higher plants, but also an ideal system to explore fundamental developmental processes of higher plants that cannot be addressed using other model plants.
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