Spirodela


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Noun1.Spirodela - minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 roots
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
duckweed family, family Lemnaceae, Lemnaceae - family of small free-floating thalloid plants
great duckweed, Spirodela polyrrhiza, water flaxseed - cosmopolitan except South America and New Zealand and some oceanic islands
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Some effects of salicylic acid on growth and flowering in Spirodela polyrrhiza SP20.
Eichhornia crassipes, Alternanthera sessilis, Ceratophyllum demersum, Azolla pinnata, Chara coralline, Hygrorrhiza aristata, Hydrodictyon reticulatum, Hydrocotyle umbellate, Lemna minor, Salvinia, Pistia, Spirodela polyrhiza, Vallisneria spiralis, etc.
Prasad, "Adsorption of Cu (II), Mn (II) and Zn (II) by Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleiden: equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies," Ecological Engineering, vol.
The samples were identified and classified by PCR [26-28], and the number of populations was as follows: 25 populations from species Spirodela polyrhiza, 16 populations from species Landoltia punctata (its another previously invalid name is Spirodela oligorrhiza (Kurz) Hegelm.), and 18 populations from Lemna aequinoctialis.
Aquatic plants like Eichhornia crassipes, Azolla filiculoides, Pistia stratiotes, Hydrilla verticillata, Typha domingensis, Salvinia Cucullata, Azolla caroliniana, Azolla pinnata, Lemna minor, Lemna aequinoctialis, Lemna gibba, and Spirodela polyrhiza are suitable aquatic plants for the removal of heavy metals as reported by several researchers [21-27].
Upatham, Kinetics of Basic Dye (Methylene Blue) Biosorption by Giant Duckweed (Spirodela Polyrrhiza), Environ.
Ph ES-IT Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleiden Hy ES-IT Stachys benthamiana Boiss He IT Stachys kermanshahensis Rech.
Schubert, "The map-based genome sequence of Spirodela polyrhiza aligned with its chromosomes, a reference for karyotype evolution," New Phytologist, vol.