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 ...

A tiny aquatic plant can clean up animal waste at industrial farms and be part of the answer for the global energy crisis. New research shows that growing duckweed on wastewater can produce five to ...

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.

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. Its ...

The plant-based protein market continues to evolve and diversify with companies cultivating novel sources, such as California-based Plantible Foods that's working with the aquatic plant Lemna (also ...

The search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that ...