The first draft genome of the aquatic model plant Lemna minor opens the route for future stress physiology research and biotechnological applications

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Van Hoeck, Arne ^a,b   Horemans, Nele ^a,c   Monsieurs, Pieter ^a   Cao, Hieu Xuan ^d   Vandenhove, Hildegarde ^a   Blust, Ronny ^b  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Duckweed; Ecotoxicology; Lemna minor; Toxicogenomics; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); GENES; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; DUCKWEED; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; LEMNA MINOR; TOXICOGENOMICS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

PROTEINS;

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENOME; GENOMICS; MACROPHYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS;

LEMNA; LEMNA MINOR; SPIRODELA; SPIRODELA POLYRRHIZA;

EID: 84947968090     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0381-1     Document Type: Article

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