Nymphaea thermarum
Plant Biology

Unusual Labmates: The world's smallest water lily

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Greta Friar

Nymphaea thermarum is a tiny waterlily with big potential as a research tool to learn about the evolution of flowering plants. The fact that this research can happen is quite remarkable, because N. thermarum went extinct in the wild around 2009. Read a multimedia feature about this lily here. 

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The Gehring Lab studies plant epigenetics — the heritable information that influences cellular function but is not encoded in the DNA sequence itself.

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