Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's ...

Duckweed might be the world’s most underestimated plant. Thriving in water and rich in potential, this fast-growing aquatic ...

You may have encountered duckweed thousands of times. The tiny aquatic plant can grow practically anywhere there’s standing water and sunlight, including here at Brooklyn’s iconic Prospect Park ...

Genes required for chromosomal small RNA are missing in certain duckweed species. This may explain the emergence of vigorous inter-species hybrids with three, rather than two, copies of each ...

Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing ...

With tiny leaf-like fronds, and the smallest flower and fruit in the plant world, duckweed may sound like delicate botanic specimen. However, this bright green denizen of ponds across Asia teams ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's enough sunlight and carbon ...

Spirodela polyrhiza, the most ancient member of the duckweed family ... Ordóñez at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.