Rediscovering duckweed's value: uniting to advance its research system and applications

Duckweed, an aquatic plant of great scientific and application value, has not received adequate attention. It provides a more convenient and controllable experimental system, and holds great value in environmental remediation, alternative protein development, and biomedicine. Currently, duckweed research faces issues like fragmented efforts, insufficient resource synergy, and lack of interdisciplinary collaboration. This article advocates renewed attention to duckweed's value and proposes building its research and industrial application systems via collaboration to address major needs like ecological conservation and food security.