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Fertilisers Effect On Duckweed

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• Duckweed (Lemna minor) is a member of the Lemnaceae family (Monette et al. 2006) it is a small plant that floats on the surface of still or stagnant water that is usually rich in nutrients (Keddy 2010). It was seen that Duckweed thrived in areas of high nutrient content, high sunlight and warmer temperatures (Taylor 2011) .It was also seen that fertilisers contained nutrients, such as nitrates, which greatly influences duckweed growth. Duckweed is also used for feed for farm animal, such as ducks, and it is also used to reduce nutrients in eutrophic environments (Ansari and Khan 2008, 2009, 2011); therefore this experiment was done to determine the effects that high concentrations of fertilisers cause on Duckweed by repeatedly adding varying

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