Duckweed grows just as fast under energy-efficient low-intensity light (top left) as it does under bright lights (bottom right). Dr. Jared J. Stewart, CC BY-ND Duckweed is a small floating plant that ...

Letter Published: 21 August 1937 Concentration of Mesothorium-I by Duckweed (Lemna) W. I. VERNADSKY, B. K. BRUNOWSKY & C. G. KUNASHEVA Nature 140, 317–318 (1937) Cite this article ...

Duckweed it is. Commonly found in ponds and fish tanks, duckweed is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world—and the most protein-rich, to boot.

The Canal and Rivers Trust said the basin had one of the worst incidents of duckweed growth seen in the West Midlands.

The researchers took samples of the giant duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) from 68 waterbodies distributed all over the world and read the DNA sequences of their entire genomes. They found that in ...

Duckweed is the perfect space food: small, fast-growing and nutritious. By studying how light levels changed the production of radiation-fighting antioxidants, researchers made it even better.

Hatice Tekoğul, Wastewater Treatment of Solid Waste Leachate and Production of Proteinaceous Biomass Using Duckweed Vegetation (Lemna minor), Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 39, No. 2 (March 2023), ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have engineered duckweed to produce high yields of oil. The team added genes to one of nature’s fastest growing ...

Research Highlight Published: 01 October 2000 Inositol phosphates From duckweed to DNA… Alison Mitchell Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 1, 6 (2000) Cite this article ...

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.

By the Mail Tribune Updated March 15, 2011 9:09 AM ...