Sentences with phrase «containing cyanobacteria»

Crusts containing cyanobacteria may lie dormant in the soil for most of the year, but get kicked up during spring rainstorms.

The bloom, which is caused by nitrogen runoff from farm fertilizer, contains a cyanobacteria toxin that may be linked to neurological diseases.

Not exact matches

Stromatolites are layered structures built up by sediment - trapping cyanobacteria, and it is these cyanobacteria that have been found to contain a new form of chlorophyll — the fifth ever discovered.

Like cyanobacteria, they contain phycobilin pigments as well as various forms of chlorophyll.

There are more than 123,000 lakes greater than 10 acres in size spread across the United States, and based on the last EPA National Lakes Assessment, at least one - third may contain toxin - producing cyanobacteria.

But scientists are still debating at what point the Earth's atmosphere contained enough oxygen (produced by cyanobacteria) to allow the formation of big iron deposits.

The earth's early oceans initially contained little oxygen, but cyanobacteria produce it as a by - product of photosynthesis.

A femtosecond X-ray pulse from an X-ray free electron laser intersecting a droplet that contains photosystem II crystals, the protein extracted and crystallized from cyanobacteria.

But there are not just negative aspects to cyanobacteria, Nicola Wannicke points out: They can also be seen as factories for different substances that could contain potential antibiotics or other active substances which may be applied in cancer treatments.

Plastids typically contain some 60 to 100 genes, compared cyanobacteria that have some 1500 genes.

They usually take the form of chloroplasts, which like cyanobacteria contain chlorophyll and produce organic compounds (such as glucose) through photosynthesis.

It does contain a modicum of truth, however, in that the largest volume of stromatolitic formations was likely formed by biogenic processes involving photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

The researchers have shown that Synechococcus cyanobacteria — which use light to capture carbon dioxide from the air and produce energy for the marine food chain — contain specific genes which alters their pigmentation depending on the type of light in which they float.

Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global warming gas, into carbohydrates and other carbon - containing polymers, which sequester the carbon so that they're no longer global warming gases.