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what chemical components does water lettuce have? and how it was use ..? please ....
and thank you....

Hi

I had some trouble understanding exactly what your question was, but I found the following links on water lettuce that seem relevant to what I think your question is. The major use of water lettuce by man seems to be in water purification - otherwise it seems to be mostly a weed or an animal feed.

Here is a paper on the nutritional content of water hyacinthm which is related to, but not, water lettuce:

http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd17/8/abou17096.htm

Here are some more relevant articles to your question. Access to more than the abstract online costs money, but you may be able to access them free by contacting a local university library or working through your local community library, or writing to the authors of the papers.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour ... 1&SRETRY=0

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q653066601357222/

http://www.springerlink.com/content/m557l0r2kp33lnt4/

http://cswgcin.harc.edu/(020gzh55ynmsvr ... &tsn=42542

Here is a book review that might be relevant:

http://books.google.com/books?id=htwcV7 ... lt#PPR7,M1

And a paper of possible use:

http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/ajbb/ajbb4143-56.pdf

Here is a website of someone with similar interests to you:

http://lbewww.epfl.ch/LBE/W3_E/ORG_E/TE ... iger_e.htm

These papers look relevant to your need:
http://www.cipav.org.co/lrrd/lrrd14/1/ly141a.htm

http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/AC151E/AC151E25.htm

http://balwois.com/balwois/administrati ... fp-588.pdf

http://ejeafche.uvigo.es/index.php?opti ... iew&gid=60