Could Pond Scum Undo Pollution, Fight Global Warming And Alleviate World Hunger?

Friday, July 11, 2008 - 08:28 in Earth & Climate

Three plant biologists at Rutgers' Waksman Institute of Microbiology are obsessed with duckweed, a tiny aquatic plant with an unassuming name. Now they have convinced the federal government to focus its attention on duckweed's tremendous potential for cleaning up pollution, combating global warming and feeding the world. The Department of Energy's national laboratories will sequence the duckweed genome.

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