The effects of 20 amino acids and two amides were studied on the flowering of a photoperiodically insensitive duckweed, Lemnapaucicostata LP6. Alanine, asparagine, aspartate, cystine, glutamate, glutamine, glycine, lysine, methionine, proline, serine, and threonine induced flowering under a photoperiodic regime of 16 hours light and 8 hours darkness. Among these, glutamate and aspartate were fo...

The use and utility of the no observed effect concentration (NOEC) in ecological risk assessment is a contentious issue. One concern is that the NOEC is not representative of a concentration at which no biologically significant effect is occurring. A new method has been developed to estimate the threshold of toxicity, or a true NOEC, for aquatic plants. The method involves determining the effec...