20 Facts About Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria, known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria that obtain energy via photosynthesis.

Cyanobacteria are the first organisms known to have produced oxygen.

Cyanobacteria produce a range of toxins known as cyanotoxins that can pose a danger to humans and animals.

Cyanobacteria are a very large and diverse phylum of photoautotrophic prokaryotes.

Cyanobacteria are a group of photosynthetic bacteria evolutionarily optimized for environmental conditions of low oxygen.

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Cyanobacteria are globally widespread photosynthetic prokaryotes and are major contributors to global biogeochemical cycles.

Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in marine environments and play important roles as primary producers.

Cyanobacteria are variable in morphology, ranging from unicellular and filamentous to colonial forms.

Cyanobacteria use the energy of sunlight to drive photosynthesis, a process where the energy of light is used to synthesize organic compounds from carbon dioxide.

Cyanobacteria appear to separate these two processes with their plasma membrane containing only components of the respiratory chain, while the thylakoid membrane hosts an interlinked respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chain.

Cyanobacteria can interfere with water treatment in various ways, primarily by plugging filters and by producing cyanotoxins, which have the potential to cause serious illness if consumed.

Cyanobacteria have been found to play an important role in terrestrial habitats.

Cyanobacteria fulfill vital ecological functions in the world's oceans, being important contributors to global carbon and nitrogen budgets.

Cyanobacteria can enter the plant through the stomata and colonize the intercellular space, forming loops and intracellular coils.

Cyanobacteria are able to produce sulphated polysaccharides that enable them to form floating aggregates.

Cyanobacteria remained principal primary producers throughout the Proterozoic Eon, in part because the redox structure of the oceans favored photoautotrophs capable of nitrogen fixation.

Cyanobacteria remain critical to marine ecosystems as primary producers in oceanic gyres, as agents of biological nitrogen fixation, and, in modified form, as the plastids of marine eukaryotic algae.

Cyanobacteria are challenged by environmental stresses and internally generated reactive oxygen species that cause DNA damage.

Cyanobacteria were traditionally classified by morphology into five sections, referred to by the numerals I–V.

Cyanobacteria have been engineered to produce ethanol and experiments have shown that when one or two CBB genes are being over expressed, the yield can be even higher.