The paper describes how the scientists engineered a strain of duckweed, Lemna japonica, to accumulate oil at close to 10 percent of its dry weight biomass. That's a dramatic, 100-fold increase ...

They started with an existing type of duckweed known as Lemna japonica, to which they added multiple genes which were already known to drive oil production and storage in other plants. In what is ...

The paper describes how the scientists engineered a strain of duckweed, Lemna japonica, to accumulate oil at close to 10 percent of its dry weight biomass. That’s a dramatic, 100-fold increase over ...

Plantible Foods said it is developing a cultivation infrastructure and working towards an automated system to grow a sustainable supply of lemna for use in food industry formulations. “We have ...

Bars made with Lentein lemna protein concentrate (Lisa Keenan 2009 ) Marketed as the “world's most nutritionally complete and sustainable food source”, the water lentil has a long history of ...

A site where Lemna is grown and studied for adaptation to various local conditions. Photo by Richard Otim. The desire to achieve food and feed secuirty for both human beings and animals in Uganda ...