Duckweed (Lemna minor) as a Model Plant System for the Study of Human Microbial Pathogenesis

Abstract

Our results demonstrate that duckweed can be used as a fast, inexpensive and reproducible model plant system for the study of host-pathogen interactions, could serve as an alternative choice for the study of some virulence factors, and could also potentially be used in large-scale screening for the discovery of antimicrobial chemicals.