The Azolla plants saw to that, eliminating their own habitat when they transformed the global climate (humans, take note). As a stand-in, plant geneticist Martienssen has set his sights on duckweed, ...

The name duckweed can conjure up different images in my mind. It could be a plant shaped like a duck, that floats like a duck, grows where ducks live, or serves as duck food. The group of plants ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The once-mysterious green “scum” that was first reported to be floating through Portland on the Willamette River earlier is still lingering in the area. However, local experts ...

A RECENT study by researchers from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) revealed that growing azolla with rice can minimize the damage caused by golden apple snail (GAS) to the crop. Lead ...

Warm, sunny days have fueled bloom of harmless, if unattractive, invasive weeds at the popular Santa Rosa lake. A spell of mild, sunny weather more closely resembling spring than midwinter has fueled ...

The aquatic term, 'azolla' together with the blue-green algae (anabaena azollae) provides a symbiotic association that can fix agronomically significant amounts of nitrogen (N). The usefulness of ...