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Wolffia borealis

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
Links to other databases
Genome
Scientific Literature
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Internal ID UUID643ff0cea5737151991742
Scientific name Wolffia borealis
Authority (Engelm.) Landolt
First published in Veröff. Geobot. Inst. ETH Stiftung Rübel Zürich 71: 453 (1986)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Wolffia brasiliensis var. borealis Engelm. Exsicc. (Herb. Engelmann) 1867(Sept.): s.n. (1867)

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English northern watermeal

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
      • Pennsylvania
      • Vermont
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Oregon
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Kentucky
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
      • Utah
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000334451
Canadensys 6495
USDA Plants WOBO
Tropicos 18100047
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1153531-2
The Plant List kew-214822
Open Tree Of Life 1059896
NCBI Taxonomy 161113
Nature Serve 2.130509
IUCN Red List 64326301
IPNI 1153531-2
iNaturalist 79526
GBIF 5330087
Freebase /m/0fqt4vh
WisFlora 5434
EOL 1127805
Calflora (Californian flora) 8346
USDA GRIN 416574
Wikipedia Wolffia_borealis

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Duckweeds: their utilization, metabolites and cultivation Baek G, Saeed M, Choi HK Appl Biol Chem 19-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8525856
doi:10.1186/s13765-021-00644-z
PMID:34693083
Frond architecture of the rootless duckweed Wolffia globosa Yang J, Zhao X, Li G, Hu S, Hou H BMC Plant Biol 20-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8377843
doi:10.1186/s12870-021-03165-5
PMID:34416853
Flavonoids from duckweeds: potential applications in the human diet Pagliuso D, Palacios Jara CE, Grandis A, Lam E, Pena Ferreira MJ, Buckeridge MS RSC Adv 21-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC9058668
doi:10.1039/d0ra06741e
PMID:35516288
Correlation of Apiose Levels and Growth Rates in Duckweeds Pagliuso D, Grandis A, Igarashi ES, Lam E, Buckeridge MS Front Chem 20-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6062639
doi:10.3389/fchem.2018.00291
PMID:30079335
Survey of the total fatty acid and triacylglycerol composition and content of 30 duckweed species and cloning of a Δ6-desaturase responsible for the production of γ-linolenic and stearidonic acids in Lemna gibba Yan Y, Candreva J, Shi H, Ernst E, Martienssen R, Schwender J, Shanklin J BMC Plant Biol 05-Dec-2013
PMCID:PMC3879013
doi:10.1186/1471-2229-13-201
PMID:24308551

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