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    Azolla (common called mosquito fern, water fern, and fairy moss) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae. They are extremely...
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    Azolla filiculoides (water fern) is a species of aquatic fern. It is native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Americas, and has been introduced...
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    The Azolla event is a paleoclimatology scenario hypothesized to have occurred in the middle Eocene epoch, around 49 million years ago, when blooms of the...
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    Azolla pinnata is a species of fern known by several common names, including mosquitofern, feathered mosquitofern and water velvet. It is native to much...
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    (Pteridium aquilinum) and water fern (Azolla filiculoides), are significant weeds worldwide. Some fern genera, such as Azolla, can fix nitrogen and make a significant...
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    Azolla cristata, the Carolina mosquito fern, Carolina azolla, or water velvet, is a species of the Azolla genus native to the Americas, in eastern North...
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    Anabaena azollae cyanobacteria with Azolla plants. Anabaena reside on the stems and within leaves of Azolla plants. The Azolla plant undergoes photosynthesis...
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    Azolla rubra, known commonly as red azolla and Pacific azolla, is a species of aquatic fern native to Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand, it is...
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    transition was the azolla event. With the equable climate during the early Eocene, warm temperatures in the arctic allowed for the growth of azolla, which is a...
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    Azolla mexicana, the Mexican mosquito fern, is an aquatic fern native to Mexico, British Columbia and the western United States (California, Oregon, Washington...
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    Azolla nilotica is a medium-sized floating fern, that naturally occurs in the Nile and in eastern and central Africa. It is assigned to the family Salviniaceae...
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    all ferns. One genus, Azolla, is amongst the fastest growing plants on earth and caused a cooling of the climate in the Azolla event about 50 million...
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  • relationships with plants, especially legumes, mosses and aquatic ferns such as Azolla. Looser non-symbiotic relationships between diazotrophs and plants are often...
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    to the other water ferns, including the mosquito fern Azolla. Recent sources include both Azolla and Salvinia in Salviniaceae, although each genus was...
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    Azolla primaeva is an extinct species of "water fern" in the family Salviniaceae known from Eocene fossils from the Ypresian stage (56 to 48 million years...
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  • – Acer negundo, Fraxinus pennsylvanica AzollaAzolla Carolina azollaAzolla caroliniana Water Fern – Azolla Filiculoides Bamboo – bamboosa ardinarifolia...
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    two genera Azolla and Salvinia, with about 20 known species in total. The oldest records of the family date to the Late Cretaceous. Azolla was previously...
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    deposits in the Arctic Ocean floor of the aquatic fern Azolla in the middle Eocene (the "Azolla Event") may have been a contributory factor in the early...
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    Cagauan, A. G.; Branckaert, R. D.; Van Hove, C. (2000). "Integrating fish and azolla into rice-duck farming in Asia" (PDF). Naga (ICLARM Quarterly). 23 (1):...
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    Cagauan, A. G.; Branckaert, R. D.; Van Hove, C. (2000). "Integrating fish and azolla into rice-duck farming in Asia" (PDF). Naga (ICLARM Quarterly). 23 (1):...
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    (PETM and ETM-2) and warming climate until the Eocene Climatic Optimum. The Azolla event decreased CO2 levels from 3500 ppm to 650 ppm, setting the stage for...
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    species of cyanobacterium that is involved in symbiosis with the plant, Azolla filiculoides. "Home - 'Nostoc azollae' 0708". genome.jgi.doe.gov. Retrieved...
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    life cycles, such as seed plants, spike mosses and the aquatic fern genus Azolla. In gymnosperms and angiosperm anthers, the microsporangia produce microsporocytes...
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    overgrown with aquatic macrophytes, primarily the non-native water-fern, Azolla filiculoides, and this has caused increased eutrophication, creating large...
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    Azolla as affected by temperature". Aquatic Botany. 15 (2): 175–185. Bibcode:1983AqBot..15..175W. doi:10.1016/0304-3770(83)90027-X. The Arctic Azolla...
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  • Cagauan, A. G.; Branckaert, R. D.; Van Hove, C. (2000). "Integrating fish and azolla into rice-duck farming in Asia" (PDF). Naga (ICLARM Quarterly). 23 (1):...
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    aquatica Arthraxon hispidus Azolla caroliniana (water velvet, mosquito fern) Azolla filiculoïdes (Azolla, moss fern) Azolla pinnata Bacopa amplexicaulis...
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    more rainfall, the lake fills up". The aquatic ferns Marsilea hirsuta and Azolla filiculoides grow in Lake George. Rushes and sedges growing at Lake George...
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    records, including a number of well-known genera such as the mosquito fern (Azolla).[citation needed] The honeybee subspecies Apis mellifera lamarckii is named...
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  • Institute, International Rice Research (1987). Azolla Utilization: Proceedings of the Workshop on Azolla Use, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, 31 March-5 April 1985...
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