The Little Green Plant That Could: Duckweed as a Renewable and Sustainable Biofuel FeedstockThis award-winning video highlights duckweed as a promising biofuel feedstock candidate.
Produced by Philomena Chu and Ryan Gutierrez. Judge’s Choice and Community Choice Winner of the 2013 IGERT Video & Poster Competition. |
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Time-lapse Video of Duckweed GrowthSpirodela polyrhiza (greater duckweed) grown on filtered wastewater from Princeton Meadows Wastewater Treatment Plant. This strain (#9316) was originally collected from a lake in Ajmer, India. Duckweed plants use asexual reproduction to multiply rapidly on nutrient-rich water. In the process, they absorb the dissolved nutrients and purify the water.
Photography by Ryan Gutierrez and Philomena Chu, Laboratory of Eric Lam, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. |
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