To do this, we turned to a plant called duckweed. I proposed to the Translational Research Institute for Space Health that in addition to maximizing nutritional, space and resource efficiency, we also ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's enough sunlight and carbon dioxide, the aquatic plant can grow freely.

Researchers from the Plants for Space program sent a sample of duckweed into space recently as part of an investigation into its potential for use as food, material or medicine. The experiment was ...

Scientists are hoping duckweed and slurry could help farmers "make money from muck". A new project hopes to provide low-cost animal feed while stopping livestock waste polluting rivers.

But for the biofuel industry, the growing focus on duckweed is probably a good thing; in the future, what was a watery pest may provide a viable way to work yet another part of the planet's ...

Duckweed, a tiny freshwater floating plant, is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change ...

Duckweed is often mistaken for algae, but has properties of interest to space scientists An Adelaide bio-scientist says it has potential as a foodstuff and building material It could also help ...