Nymphaea thermarum, a member of one of the lineages that is sister to all other flowering plants (except Amborella), is a tractable experimental system with a growing toolkit of genetic resources. This makes it a new and approachable resource for studying plant evolution.
Latest News:
Feb 2024:
Feb 2022:
Feb 2024:
- N. thermarum populations found in the wild, by T. Abeli et. al.! Published online 2024:1-3. doi:10.1017/S0030605323001837
Feb 2022:
- Paper on seed development transcriptomes in N. thermarum now available in Plant Reproduction: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00497-022-00438-3. Focus on expression of transcription factors and DNA and histone methylation modifiers.
- Paper on seed development transcriptomes in N. thermarum available as a pre-print on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.04.438399v1 . Focus on expression of transcription factors and DNA and histone methylation modifiers.
- Seed development transcriptome project is now on NCBI (BioProject PRJNA718528)
- N. thermarum genome & vascular cambium loss paper featured in a Commentary in PNAS - Water lilies, loss of woodiness, and model systems, by Peter R. Crane and Else Marie Friis - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005075117
- Genome assembly and transcriptomes are now available! Check out the associated publication in PNAS and BioProject PRJNA508901 on NCBI
Why this species?
Flowering plants are essential for human life, yet we understand little about their early evolutionary history. Nymphaeales, the waterlilies, are one of the most ancient lineages of flowering plants.
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History
Described in 1987 as the world's smallest waterlily, Nymphaea thermarum was soon after declared to be extinct in the wild. It took two botanical gardens and several years to figure out how to get this species to flower. Wild populations have recently been re-discovered.
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Research
Find out what research is being done with Nymphaea thermarum. Also the place to look for protocols and papers, and to find out who is working with N. thermarum now.
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