Acclimation of functional traits leads to biomass increases in leafy green species grown in aquaponics.

ABSTRACT: As human population size continues to increase and climate change effects worsen, future food security has become a primary concern for agricultural industries worldwide. Yields of traditional agricultural methods are commonly limited by water and nutrient availability and many crop yields are predicted to decline. Alternative farming practices like aquaponics, which can alleviate these negative yield pressures, may become critical to reaching food production targets. Aquaponics approaches involve the cyclic joint production of fish and hydroponic plants where the fish efflux provides nutrients to plants that then purify the water to be recycled to the fish tanks. In this study, we investigated the acclimation of physiology and functional traits of plants grown in aquaponics versus soil fo

SUBMITTER: Nicholes V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851069 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature