Iron plaque formation in the roots of Pistia stratiotes L.: importance in phytoremediation of cadmium.

Aquatic macrophytes play an important role in the removal of toxic metals from wastewater. Therefore, the induction of Fe plaque on the roots, and its consequences on Cd tolerance investigated in an aquatic macrophyte Pistia stratiotes L. The presence of Fe ion but not Fe resulted in Fe plaque formation.

Unravelling molecular mechanisms from floral initiation to lipid biosynthesis in a promising biofuel tree species, Pongamia pinnata using transcriptome analysis.

Pongamia pinnata (L.) (Fabaceae) is a promising biofuel tree species which is underexploited in the areas of both fundamental and applied research, due to the lack of information either on transcriptome or genomic data. To investigate the possible metabolic pathways, we performed whole transcriptome analysis of Pongamia through Illumina NextSeq platform and generated 2.