Giant Duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) Root Growth as a Simple and Sensitive Indicator of Copper and Chromium Contamination

H Lee, J De Saeger, S Bae, M Kim, S Depuydt… - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aquatic environment are often contaminated with heavy metals from various industrial
sources. However, physicochemical techniques for pollutant detection are limited, thus …

Covering the bases: Population genomic structure of Lemna minor and the cryptic species L. japonica in Switzerland

MW Schmid, A Moradi, DM Leigh… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Duckweeds, including the common duckweed Lemna minor, are increasingly used to test
eco‐evolutionary theories. Yet, despite its popularity and near‐global distribution, the …

Temperature dependence and genetic variation in resource acquisition strategies in a model freshwater plant

GJ Gillies, AL Angert, T Usui - Functional Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how competition varies with environmental stress is critical to anticipating
species and community responses to rapid environmental change. While the stress‐gradient …

A survey of duckweed species in southern Italy provided first occurrences of the hybrid Lemna× mediterranea in the wild

LE Romano, L Braglia, MA Iannelli, Y Lee, L Morello - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Interspecific hybridization and polyploidization are recognized as two main driving forces in
plant evolution, shaping genomes and favoring evolutionary novelty and ecological …

Experimental evolution of species ranges and coexistence using competing duckweed species

T Usui - 2023 - open.library.ubc.ca
Understanding the evolution of species distributions is a fundamental goal of evolutionary
ecology. With global change comes new challenges in predicting the movement of species …