Watermeal

  • Thailand’s scientists are exploring the potential of watermeal as a source of nutrition and oxygen for astronauts.
  • Watermeal (Wolffia species) is world’s smallest flowering plant.
  • It is a rootless, stem less plant and floats on water bodies.
  • Its simplicity and rapid growth rate make it an ideal candidate for studying the effects of altered gravity on plant development. It’s a prolific producer of oxygen through photosynthesis and a rich source of ....
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