Cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, play a key role in the cycling of carbon
and nitrogen in the biosphere, and have had a large impact on the evolution of life and the …

Biofuels and other biologically manufactured sustainable goods are growing in popularity
and demand. Carbohydrate feedstocks required for industrial fermentation processes have …

Filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are among the simplest multicellular systems
in Nature. In the absence of combined nitrogen, the filaments consist of vegetative cells that …

Heterocyst‐forming cyanobacteria are filamentous organisms that perform oxygenic
photosynthesis and CO2 fixation in vegetative cells and nitrogen fixation in heterocysts …

Background Cyanobacteria are potential sources of renewable chemicals and biofuels and
serve as model organisms for bacterial photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and responses to …

There are several instances of cellular differentiation in prokaryotes, including the formation
of spores in Bacillus, the fruiting bodies of Myxococcus, and the stalked cells of Caulobacter …

Cyanobacteria and green algae harness solar energy to split water and to fix CO 2. Under
specific conditions, they are capable of photoproduction of molecular hydrogen (H 2). This …

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, like all members of the genus
Pseudomonas, has the capacity to thrive in very different environments, ranging from water …

Cyanobacteria are highly diverse, widely distributed photosynthetic bacteria inhabiting
various environments ranging from deserts to the cryosphere. Throughout this range of …

Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are multicellular organisms in which growth requires the
activity of two metabolically interdependent cell types, the vegetative cells that perform …