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Faster peat moss farming in labs could help rescue degraded peatlands

PubMed · 2026-07-10

Peat bogs store more carbon than all living matter on Earth combined, but peat mining and agriculture are degrading them fast. Researchers have developed lab-based techniques to grow peat moss up to 50 times faster than normal, pointing toward a scalable path to restore these critical ecosystems.

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Peatlands store more carbon than all living matter on Earth combined, despite covering only a small fraction of the planet's land surface.

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Optimizing growth media for multiple Sphagnum species in photobioreactors achieved up to a 50-fold increase in biomass.

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Axenic, monoclonal strains were established from spore capsules collected across European peatlands, with flow cytometry confirming both haploid and diploid accessions.

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