The long evolutionary history and photo-autotrophic lifestyle of cyanobacteria has allowed
them to colonize almost all photic habitats on Earth, including environments with high or …

Photosynthetic organisms are exposed to a fluctuating environment in which light intensity
and quality change continuously. Specific illumination of either photosystem (PSI or PSII) …

Heat stress during the seedling stage of early-planted winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is
one of the most abiotic stresses of the crop restricting forage and grain production in the …

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

Reversible phosphorylation is a key mechanism that regulates many cellular processes in
prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In prokaryotes, signal transduction includes two-component …

Butanol is a promising biofuel, and recent metabolic engineering efforts have demonstrated
the use of photosynthetic cyanobacterial hosts for its production. However, cyanobacteria …

Résumé Wild salt-tolerant barley (Hordeum spontaneum) is the ancestor of cultivated barley
(Hordeum vulgare or H. vulgare). Although the cultivated barley genome is well studied, little …

Photosynthetic organisms must sense and respond to fluctuating environmental conditions
in order to perform efficient photosynthesis and to avoid the formation of dangerous reactive …

Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter Synechocystis) is a model cyanobacterium and has
been used extensively for studies concerned with photosynthesis and environmental …

Salt stress is a common stress that limits growth and productivity of photosynthetic microbes
in natural environments. Although cellular responses of a model cyanobacterium …