{"id":183059,"date":"2024-02-19T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/common-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity-researchers-find"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:34:44","slug":"common-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/common-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity-researchers-find","title":{"rendered":"Common plant could help reduce food insecurity, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-plant-could-help-reduce-food-insecurity-researchers-find.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An often-overlooked water plant that can double its biomass in two days, capture nitrogen from the air\u2014making it a valuable green fertilizer\u2014and be fed to poultry and livestock could serve as life-saving food for humans in the event of a catastrophe or disaster, a new study led by Penn State researchers suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Native to the eastern U.S., the plant, azolla caroliniana Willd\u2014commonly known as Carolina azolla\u2014also could ease <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/food+insecurity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">food insecurity<\/a> in the near future, according to findings recently <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/fsn3.3904\">published<\/a> in <i>Food Science &amp; Nutrition<\/i>. The researchers found that the Carolina strain of azolla is more digestible and nutritious for humans than azolla varieties that grow in the wild and also are cultivated in Asia and Africa for livestock feed.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which was led by Daniel Winstead, a research assistant in the labs of Michael Jacobson, professor of ecosystem science and management, and Francesco Di Gioia, assistant professor of vegetable crop science, is part of a larger interdisciplinary research project called Food Resilience in the Face of Catastrophic Global Events conducted in the College of Agricultural Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An often-overlooked water plant that can double its biomass in two days, capture nitrogen from the air\u2014making it a valuable green fertilizer\u2014and be fed to poultry and livestock could serve as life-saving food for humans in the event of a catastrophe or disaster, a new study led by Penn State researchers suggests. Native to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}