Contents
1 Importance of Duckweeds in Basic Research
and Their Industrial Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Paul Fourounjian, Tamra Fakhoorian and Xuan Hieu Cao
2 Tiny Plants with Enormous Potential: Phylogeny
and Evolution of Duckweeds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Nicholas P. Tippery and Donald H. Les
3 Worldwide Genetic Resources of Duckweed: Stock
Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
K. S. Sree and K.-J. Appenroth
4 Cytogenetics, Epigenetics and Karyotype Evolution
of Duckweeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Xuan Hieu Cao and Giang T. H. Vu
5 Genetic Diversity and DNA Barcoding in the Duckweed
Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Jiaming Zhang and Azizullah Azizullah
6 Strategies and Tools for Sequencing Duckweeds . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Xiaoli Xiang and Changsheng Li
7 The Journey of Spirodela Whole-Genome Sequencing . . . . . . 77
Dong An and Wenqin Wang
8 Repetitive Sequences: Impacts and Uses in the Spirodela
Genome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Paul Fourounjian
9 Stranger than Fiction: Loss of MADS-Box Genes
During Evolutionary Miniaturization of the Duckweed
Body Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Lydia Gramzow and Günter Theißen
10 Duckweed Chloroplast Genome Sequencing
and Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Yating Zhang and Wenqin Wang
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