Cyanobacteria eat sunlight for breakfast in order to create oxygen. Auscape/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Like humans, plants and animals, bacteria need food to survive. Some bacteria are autotrophs, mean
Wind can blow an algal bloom to one side of a body of water or push it toward the shore. There may be warning signs posted near bodies of water that have been positively identified as containing toxic cyanobacteria. Most blue-green algal blooms do not produce toxins; however, a small amou...
Controlling the spread of cyanobacteria has become a pressing global challenge. Especially for lakes/reservoirs and larger ponds. Common methods to prevent algal blooms include aeration, chemical/biological additives, or ultrasonic technology. Although there are plenty of treatment solutions on the market,...
Photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria have been shown to exhibit complex transcriptional remodeling with respect to diurnal variation of light availability [1-3]. However, the reported estimates of the number of oscillating transcripts differ strongly between studies and range between 9-80% of ...
When a new material is used, it is very important to document with a high level of detail what has been done, how much material was used and in which areas. This information will be of fundamental importance for those who will have to treat the same surface in the future. By implementin...
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other nutrients can lead to environmental problems such as eutrophication (algal blooms in lakes and ponds) and hypoxia (the depletion of oxygen in water due to excess algae growth). Cyanobacteria blooms associated with eutrophication can also produce toxic compounds harmful to livestock and human ...
In some cyanobacteria, many nucleoids may accumulate in an enlarged round cell or along a filament, leading to the generation of many new cells at once. The new cells often split from the parent filament and float away in a process called fragmentation (Figure 15). Fragmentation is commonly ...
As it's turned out, over time organisms have been able to modify this planet, not only in the atmosphere itself, but also all the way down into the mantle. Cyanobacteria are the culprits involved here; these are the organisms that caused the demise of the original inhabitants of this plan...
Biotechnology-driven (bio)-ISRU has been proposed, in which biology (and often synthetic biology) is used to efficiently extract and generate an array of resources. For example, the use of cyanobacteria and Escherichia coli to produce 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) in a Martian context has been ...