Tayyab Saleem

Recycling nutrients from greenhouse effluent with a stress-resistant cyanobacterial strain.

Hydroponic agriculture is being increasingly utilized for its high productivity. Current wastewater treatment methods lead to loss of phosphate and nitrate, so a future circular economy calls for better methods to treat soilless systems' effluents, allowing reuse of nutrients. Cyanobacteria can use wastewaters as culti...