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Aquatic plants, or hydrophytes, are vascular and non-vascular plants specially adapted to thrive in water-saturated or fully submerged environments. Studying these plants offers unique insights into plant adaptation strategies, including specialized root systems, aerenchyma tissue for gas exchange, and modified leaf structures that allow survival with limited light and oxygen. Understanding hydrophyte biology has broad implications for wetland ecology, water quality research, and the evolutionary pathways that enabled terrestrial plant lineages to recolonize aquatic habitats.

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phytoremediation
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Floating filters of nature: exploring the potential of aquatic plan...

Microplastics from your garden runoff, local parks, and stormwater drains end up in rivers and ev...

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Targeted multiplex gene knockouts in Lemna minor using CRISPR/Cas9.

Duckweed — the green film you see floating on ponds — could soon be engineered to grow the protei...

aquatic-plants
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Heterophyllous plants reorganize plant trait coordination between f...

Water lilies and arrowhead plants in your local pond or water garden are quietly running two comp...

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