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Duckmeat
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Duck's-meat
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Duckweed
Definition:
(n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.
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(1) Duckweed commonly refers to a group of floating, flowering plants of the family Lemnaceae.
(2) Evidence for the sequence of duckweed (Lemna minor) chloroplast 5S rRNA was derived from the analysis of partial and complete enzymic digests of the 32P-labelled molecule.
(3) Growth inhibition of duckweed could be achieved at approx 20 ppb terbutryne in steady state.
(4) The period of the circadian rhythm of uptake of K+ by Lemna gibba strain G3 (duckweed), cultured in a flow medium, was shortened by continuous application of 0.5 mM tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA), which functions as a K+ channel blocker in both animal and plant cells.
(5) Spirodela (Duckweed) was thus used to ascertain the response of the nucleocytoplasmic (nc) and plastid ribosomal RNA metabolisms to partial and total carbon deprivation.
(6) The possible sequence of the chloroplast 5S rRNA from three other flowering plants was deduced by complete digestion with T1 ribonuclease and comparison of the sequences of the oligonucleotide products with homologous sequences in the duckweed 5S rRNA.
(7) Many duckweed species have been studied, primarily of the Lemna and Spirodela genera.
(8) Radioactivity from d-[l-(14)C]glucosamine is incorporated into ethanol-insoluble compounds of high molecular weight in a number of plant tissues, including roots of corn (Zea mays), callus cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), axenic cultures of duckweed (Lemna minor) and germinating seedlings of corn, broad bean (Vicia faba) and barley (Hordeum vulgare).
(9) Duckweed and algae represent different levels of complexity in the plant kingdom.
(10) Values for the half-life of Lemna minor (duckweed) protein determined by the new method are compared with values obtained by other methods.
(11) Herbicidal effectiveness of terbutryne-EVA formulation has been investigated in a laboratory-scale simulated flow system device with duckweed plants (Lemna minor) as test organism.
(12) Thus the specific activity of the duckweed enzyme is more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of the enzyme from rat testes.
(13) In the short, single-screen film Lock Again, there is a marvellous sequence in which two young men in sailor's uniforms - both of whom look as if they have been in a fight - ferry an imperious girl across a pond thick with duckweed in a rowing boat.
(14) A new method is described for measuring environmental stress through the use of the duckweed (Lemna minor) rhizosphere.
(15) Differences in duckweed test methodology occur with regard to test types, test vessels, control tests, nutrient media, end points, and applications.
(16) Other studies, however, indicate that duckweed plants are as sensitive to toxicity as other aquatic species.
(17) Duckweed (Spirodela oligorrhiza, Kurz) is a sensitive indicator of 1,1'-alkyl-4,4'-bipyridylium salt (viologen) herbicidal potency.
(18) Duckweed plants are fast growing and widely distributed.
(19) Orellanine, a toxic principle of Cortinarius orellanus Fr., efficiently inhibited the photosynthetic activity of duckweed, Lemna minor L., at a concentration of 0.4 mM.
(20) The present paper deals with the separation of cells from soluble compounds of blood by means of exclusion chromatography using a recently described vesicular packing material made from the cell wall framework of the small duckweed Wolffia arrhiza.