The shortest definition of evolution is maintenance and expansion of information by the change of information (mutation) and subsequent selection (by environment). On the biotic (post-cellular) level, evolution led to +/- sexually isolated populations of individuals, called species. While karyotypic mutations can initiate speciation, genic mutations lead to allele diversity and adaptability....
Duckweeds are aquatic monocotyledons including the smallest and fastest-growing angiosperms. They predominantly propagate clonally, making sexual reproduction and floral development poorly explored. The most fertile duckweed species belong to the section Alatae, which includes Lemna aequinoctialis, Lemna perpusilla and recently described interspecific hybrids including L. x aoukikusa...
Understanding how plants grow, develop, and respond to their environment requires not only identifying the genes involved, but functionally characterizing what each gene does. To understand how transcription factors regulate genes across tissues and organs, transcriptional data needs to be placed within a spatial, cellular, and organismal context. Wolffia australiana is an attractive system...
