The rise of harmful cyanobacteria blooms: the potential roles of eutrophication and climate change

JM O'Neil, TW Davis, MA Burford, CJ Gobler - Harmful algae, 2012 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are the most ancient phytoplankton on the planet and form harmful algal
blooms in freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems. Recent research suggests that …

How rising CO2 and global warming may stimulate harmful cyanobacterial blooms

PM Visser, JMH Verspagen, G Sandrini, LJ Stal… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change is likely to stimulate the development of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in
eutrophic waters, with negative consequences for water quality of many lakes, reservoirs …

Eco-physiological adaptations that favour freshwater cyanobacteria in a changing climate

CC Carey, BW Ibelings, EP Hoffmann, DP Hamilton… - Water research, 2012 - Elsevier
Climate change scenarios predict that rivers, lakes, and reservoirs will experience increased
temperatures, more intense and longer periods of thermal stratification, modified hydrology …

Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and …

GD Price, MR Badger, FJ Woodger… - Journal of experimental …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria have evolved a significant environmental adaptation, known as a CO2-
concentrating-mechanism (CCM), that vastly improves photosynthetic performance and …

Carbon dioxide capture from flue gases using microalgae: engineering aspects and biorefinery concept

JCM Pires, MCM Alvim-Ferraz, FG Martins… - … and sustainable energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important contributors for the increase of the
greenhouse effect. CO2 concentrations are increasing in the last decades mainly due to the …

Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study

GS Bullerjahn, RM McKay, TW Davis, DB Baker… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
In early August 2014, the municipality of Toledo, OH (USA) issued a 'do not drink'advisory on
their water supply directly affecting over 400,000 residential customers and hundreds of …

Functions, Compositions, and Evolution of the Two Types of Carboxysomes: Polyhedral Microcompartments That Facilitate CO2 Fixation in Cyanobacteria and Some …

BD Rae, BM Long, MR Badger… - … and molecular biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cyanobacteria are the globally dominant photoautotrophic lineage. Their success is
dependent on a set of adaptations collectively termed the CO2-concentrating mechanism …

Increasing Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation in C3 Plants to Improve Crop Yield: Current and Future Strategies

CA Raines - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The realization that crop yields are reaching a plateau, while population increases continue
at pace, has placed manipulation of photosynthesis in a central position to achieve …

CO2 control of Trichodesmium N2 fixation, photosynthesis, growth rates, and elemental ratios: Implications for past, present, and future ocean biogeochemistry

DA Hutchins, FX Fu, Y Zhang… - Limnology and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Diazotrophic marine cyanobacteria in the genus Trichodesmium contribute a large fraction
of the new nitrogen entering the oligotrophic oceans, but little is known about how they …

A Model for Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Deduced from Comparative Whole Genome Analysis

PG Kroth, A Chiovitti, A Gruber, V Martin-Jezequel… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Diatoms are unicellular algae responsible for approximately 20% of global
carbon fixation. Their evolution by secondary endocytobiosis resulted in a complex cellular …