O'Brien noted researchers want to determine if duckweed could then be safely harvested and used as a type of green manure fertilizer on farms. It is estimated more than 90% of water pollution ...

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.

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.

Large-scale hog farms manage their animal waste by storing it in large "lagoons" for biological treatment. Duckweed utilizes the nutrients in the wastewater for growth, thus capturing these ...

Duckweed consumes nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium and iron, making it a potential source of remediation not only for the lagoons in which farm waste accumulates, but any type of wastewater.

But Plantible’s farm may change that. If it succeeds, duckweed may become humanity’s first new major crop in more than a century, a skeleton key to unlock how plants replace animal protein on ...

By growing duckweed on the farm, waste nitrogen and phosphates are taken out of the water, cleaning it and meaning it could potentially be safely released. The nutrients in the waste water also ...

For instance, duckweed can be used to treat municipal wastewater. It can be used on farms to treat manure ponds from chicken waste or mammal waste. The duckweed can then be used as high-protein ...

Before the water can leave a 179-acre field on the farm, it is pumped into the bioreactor. It is a 360-foot-long, earth-covered trench filled with wood chips. Microorganisms in it convert a ...

To do this, we turned to a plant called duckweed. I proposed to the Translational Research ... and other nutritional attributes that make it the perfect plant for a space farm. We are also testing ...

Barton Agriculture Research Center in Gordonville has set up a bioreactor -- an underground chamber designed to remove nutrients from farm fields fitted with subsurface drainage systems ...