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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Laurent Bazinet has received funding from the Consortium de Recherche et Innovations en Bioprocédés Industriels au Québec (CRIBIQ), grant 2020-050-C67, and from the Natural Sciences and Engineering ...

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — I came to this aquatic farm an hour outside of San Diego because I wanted to see what could be the future of humanity’s protein supply. At the moment, it looks more like a meth ...

Blending industry expertise with cutting-edge science, Adelaide University is testing technologies that could address some of Australia’s toughest environmental challenges ...