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Distinguished Professor Tia-Lynn Ashman and Assistant Professor Martin Turcotte, both of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, will use a tiny pond plant duckweed to tackle questions about the phenomenon ranging from the scale of genes to whole communities of organisms.