What’s the big idea? Current industrialized food systems were optimized for a single goal – growing the maximum amount of food for the least amount of money. But when room and supplies are limited – ...

Pull up a seat at the astronaut cafe. What's on the menu, you ask? Duckweed salad. Duckweed soup. Duckweed omelettes. A small, protein-packed plant called duckweed may be the ticket to a nutritious ...

image: 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 ...

It is a common mistake for folks to think shallow ponds are green because algae is covering the surface of the water. While algae certainly is present, not all green plants near the surface are algae.

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 of oil.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Israeli agro-tech manufacturer GreenOnyx today announced its flagship product, Wanna Greens®, the natural fresh Wolffia vegetables that surpass any traditional ...

In Asia, duckweed has been used as a food for a long time. The research group CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies at Jacobs University Bremen recently discovered that duckweed is not ...

Researchers have found why the giant duckweed has a low genetic diversity despite its large population size: low mutation rates contribute to low genetic diversity. The results are relevant for future ...

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 and ...