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Water Lily

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PubMed → · research article

Water lilies illuminate angiosperm evolution and inspire crop improvement.

The lotus-like plant floating in your botanical garden pond holds genetic secrets that researcher...

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Nymphaea odorata
Family: Nymphaeaceae
Genus: Nymphaea
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Nymphaeales
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Habit: herb

Research Topics

crop-improvement climate-adaptation aquatic-plants ancestral-genomics flood-tolerance