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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of weed-munching weevils have been released into a Lincolnshire river to eat away at water fern which is posing a risk to fish and other wildlife. The fast-growing Azolla weed is mixed in ...