Transgenerational Plasticity Enhances the Tolerance of Duckweed (Lemna minor) to Stress from Exudates of Microcystis aeruginosa
Gengyun Li, Tiantian Zheng, Gang Wang, Qian Gu, Xuexiu Chang, Yu Qian, Xiao Xu, Yi Wang, Bo Li, Yupeng Geng · 2024
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Gengyun Li and co-authors show that duckweed exposed to stress from a toxic cyanobacterium passes tolerance to its offspring. Their 2024 paper deals with transgenerational plasticity, where ancestral conditions shape the traits of descendants.
Duckweed is widely used to clean polluted water, and it often grows beside Microcystis, a bloom-forming cyanobacterium that releases a toxic mixture. Exposure changed the duckweed's form, physiology, and gene activity. The key question was whether offspring never directly exposed would still cope better. Their results say yes: the tolerance carried across generations. Such inherited adjustment may help floating plants survive waters that swing between clean and blooming states.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gengyun Li, Tiantian Zheng, Gang Wang, Qian Gu, Xuexiu Chang, Yu Qian, Xiao Xu, Yi Wang, Bo Li, Yupeng Geng |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |