Aquaponics, the combination of fish farming and growing plants in hydroponics, is a characteristic example of a circular production model. Most of the nutrients needed for plant growth in aquaponics come from the metabolic activity of the fish. Plants absorb these nutrients from water and, at the same time, release so-called root exudates into the water. Dr. Alexander Rebl from FBN Dummerstorf and Ing. Radek Gebauer, Ph.D. from FFPW USB successfully completed the TNA Rootwell project focused on the effect of lettuce root exudates on fish welfare and immunity in an aquaponic system.
The implementation of the TNA project was fully financed from the Aquaexcel3.0 project, reg. no. 871108.
A short video of this TNA project can be downloaded here.
