PRJNA205940
Spirodela polyrhiza strain:7498 Genome sequencing and assembly
Despite its small size and simple structure, duckweed exhibits attractive traits because of its fast growth, ready transformation capacity, and compact size. Compared to terrestrial plants, it utilizes turions (rich of starch) as dormant phase to pass through cold winter in place of seeds. Its unique habitat floating on free water needs very little vascular tissue to maintain its stature. In addition, the duckweed community has already taken advantage of duckweed species to clean wastewater and using biomass for biofuel conversion.