Evaluation of environmental bacterial communities as a factor affecting the growth of duckweed Lemna minor.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Duckweed (family Lemnaceae) has recently been recognized as an ideal biomass feedstock for biofuel production due to its rapid growth and high starch content, which inspired interest in improving their productivity. Since microbes that co-exist with plants are known to have significant effects on their growth according to the previous studies for terrestrial plants, this study has attempted to understand the plant-microbial interactions of a duckweed, Lemna minor, focusing on the growth promotion/inhibition effects so as to assess the possibility of accelerated duckweed production by modifying co-existing bacterial community.

Results

Co-cultivation of aseptic L. minor and bacterial communities collected from various aquatic environments result

SUBMITTER: Ishizawa H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5345205 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature