Wetlands biologist Asan Baghevzadeh, grabs a handful of the aquatic azolla plant in the Anzali wetlands on Iran's Caspian Sea coast near Bandar-e-Anzali. ((AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)) Fifty million ...

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 ...

Al-Mafraq, Jordan – Inside a greenhouse in al-Makeefta village in northern Jordan, Iman al-Athemat stood holding a spaghetti strainer she uses to harvest Azolla growing on the surface of pools. The ...

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 ...

Widespread azolla build-up has covered a lot of Tower Lakes, on the corner of Kapiti Rd and Langdale Ave, Paraparaumu. Plant matter covering a lot of Tower Lakes, Paraparaumu, is a native plant called ...

Itanagar, Dec 6 (PTI)Commercial cultivation of Azolla, a small aquatic plant full of nutrients, has come as great help to farmers of Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh who often face difficulty ...

Fifty million years ago, the Earth was so warm that turtles and alligators thrived in lush forests at the poles. Much of the North Pole was covered in a rather less charismatic life form: the floating ...

To dodge skyrocketing prices for animal fodder in Syria's last major rebel bastion, farmer Ayman Ibrahim has turned to an aquatic fern used as a fertiliser in Asian rice paddies. Azolla, which looks ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 83, No. 3 (1985), pp. 371-379 (9 pages) A pot experiment was carried out using a Bangladesh sandy loam paddy soil of pH 6.9 to compare the rates at which nitrogen from Azolla and ...

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