KutmanLab at the 8th International Conference on Duckweed Research and Applications in Naples

Our supervisor Ümit Barış Kutman gave an oral presentation for our lab on 1 October 2026 at the 8th International Conference on Duckweed Research and Applications (ICDRA 2026), held in Naples, Italy, from 28 September to 2 October 2026. The conference was hosted by the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, with the Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy (IBBA-CNR) also taking part in the organization, and it included a session marking the centenary of the birth of Elias Landolt, the Swiss scientist regarded as the founder of modern duckweed taxonomy.

The talk dealt with recovering nutrients from agricultural drainage water by growing duckweed, and proposed using the dried biomass obtained this way as a boron-binding soil amendment for soils with excess boron.

Oral presentation: Dried Duckweed Biomass as a Boron-Binding Soil Amendment Produced through Nutrient Recovery from Agricultural Drainage Water. Ümit Barış Kutman, Kübra Tutkun Akdeniz, Rıfat Buğra Bildiri and Bahar Yıldız Kutman.

Source: GTÜ Institute of Biotechnology