Duckweed, a protein-rich water plant, has been described as a "miracle plant" as it is one of the fastest growing on the planet. There are around 500,000 dairy cows in Wales which excrete about ...
They are investigating how growing duckweed in different bodies of water can capture excess nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which can affect groundwater quality and create toxic algae ...
Professor Waycott said duckweed could be cultivated to better suit it for growing in space. "It's very amenable to the kind of culturing that they would need to do to grow it in space, or growing ...