With tiny leaf-like fronds, and the smallest flower and fruit in the plant world, duckweed may sound like delicate botanic specimen. However, this bright green denizen of ponds across Asia teams ...

The paper describes how the scientists engineered a strain of duckweed, Lemna japonica, to accumulate oil at close to 10 percent of its dry weight biomass.That's a dramatic, 100-fold increase over ...

UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have engineered duckweed to produce high yields ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have engineered duckweed to produce high yields of oil. The team ...

Scientists have figured out how to coax copious amounts of oil from duckweed, one of nature’s fastest-growing aquatic plants. Converting such plant oil into biodiesel for transportation and ...

Future Market Insights Global and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. NEWARK, Del, March 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global duckweed market is projected to create phenomenal growth opportunities over the ...

Outdoing both spirulina and kale, duckweed was a hit at the last SIAL food fair in Paris. In fact, it’s been spotted and identified as a new “superfood” that could not only be a contender as ...

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 ...

A sample of duckweed has been sent to space to test the impacts of gravity on the plant. Researchers think it has potential as a source of food and material for astronauts. Australian researchers ...

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.

Duckweed is a plant that grows naturally in Cambodia’s lakes and ponds and is often used as feed for chickens, ducks and pigs by farmers who collect it from the places where it grows wild. One man, ...