NASA will grow plants including duckweed, cress and brassica in a mini lunar greenhouse when the Artemis III mission returns humans to the moon. Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora, or LEAF ...

In one corner, people tend to vials, grow lights and centrifuges in a trailer lab. More than a dozen big ponds filled with duckweed, a tiny green plant, bask in the Southern California sunshine.

When most people think of duckweed, they likely picture an unappealing green film growing across the surface of a stinky, stagnant slough. The protein-rich plant may soon be on your plate ...

However, in certain regions of South East Asia, farm animals and humans have been eating a small plant called duckweed for decades. As researchers in food science, we propose shedding some light ...

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, ...

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 ...

As a result, the engineered duckweed accumulates oil at almost 10% of its dry weight biomass, which is reportedly a 100-fold increase over the accumulation rate of the plant's wild counterpart.

University of New Hampshire scientists said a common aquatic plant called duckweed could help filter polluting runoff from dairy farms and so-called manure lagoons. They are investigating how ...

Engineering duckweed to produce oil for biofuels, bioproducts Scientists drive oil accumulation in rapidly growing aquatic plants Date: October 11, 2022 Source: DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

2022.155909 Anna-Lena Zocher et al, Assessing the bioavailability of dissolved rare earths and other trace elements: Digestion experiments with aquatic plant species Lemna minor ("duckweed ...

However, in certain regions of South East Asia, farm animals and humans have been eating a small plant called duckweed for a very long time. As researchers in food science, we propose shedding ...