The development of more sustainable food, feed, and bio-products is critical to mitigating the
environmental stresses facing our world today. Algae, which includes seaweeds, eukaryotic …

Cyanobacteria are an evolutionarily and ecologically important group of prokaryotes. They
exist in diverse habitats, ranging from hot springs and deserts to glaciers and the open …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

Cyanobacteria have been part of the human diet for thousands of years. Environmental
conditions such as high pH, light, temperature, and nutrients favour cyanobacterial growth …

Chromatic acclimation (CA) encompasses a diverse set of molecular processes that involve
the ability of cyanobacterial cells to sense ambient light colors and use this information to …

Highlights•Combination of four color-tuning mechanisms results in diverse spectral
properties.•Structural information uncovers general and specific photoconversion …

This review adds the bilin-binding phytochromes to the Chemical Reviews thematic issue
“Optogenetics and Photopharmacology”. The work is structured into two parts. We first …

Highlights•Cyanobacterial phytochromes and cyanobacteriochromes are highly
diverse.•These photosensors are modular and integrate multiple light wavelength …

Emergence of pollutants in wastewater, expensive cultivation of microalgae, and difficulties
in industrial scale production are the main challenges for successful coupling of microalgae …

Bacterial photoreceptors absorb light energy and transform it into intracellular signals that
regulate metabolism. Bacterial phytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs), some …