Scientists have been campaigning to turn the fast-growing Azolla into a food of the future. Others envision it becoming both a sustainable biofuel and a fertilizer that captures carbon. What is Azolla ...

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Vol. 137, No. 1, Selected papers from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NITROGEN FIXATION WITH NON-LEGUMES (November (I), 1991), pp. 25-36 (12 pages) Nostoc, a genus of ...

Azolla fertilizer at Wangari Kuria's farm can be used as a protein nutrient in farm animals such as chicken and cattle and also can be used in crop farming. [David Gichuru, Standard] The soaring ...

Azolla is a floating aquatic fern with a very fast growth. That’s important for multiple reasons, the first being that the fern shows “great promise as a biofuel,” says Rothfel. While it’s been used ...

Cultures of Azolla caroliniana Willd. free of the symbiotic blue-green alga, Anabaena azollae, were obtained by treatment of Azolla fronds with a regimen of antibiotics. These symbiont-free plants can ...

Like a priceless painting, the beautiful blue and green swirl in a lake or pond presents a look-don’t-touch kind of situation. It’s the work of proliferating cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green ...