Sentences with phrase «cyanobacteria grow»

An answer came when he traced the origin of the BMAA in cycad seeds to cyanobacteria growing in the plant's roots.

Yu envisions the cyanobacteria growing either in ponds, or possibly vertically, on newspaper - like sheets.

Not exact matches

Some palaeontologists think stromatolites were formed when growing mats of cyanobacteria trapped sediments and eventually fossilised.

The paper is a technical analysis of the uncertainties involved in computer modeling studies that use the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Erie in the spring to predict the size of late - summer cyanobacteria blooms, which have grown larger since the mid-1990s.

Other potential explanations for the reported trend in bloom susceptibility are increasingly calm summer weather conditions, which can also promote cyanobacteria dominance, and a growing reservoir of Microcystis seed colonies at the bottom of Lake Erie.

He noticed that each summer, the growing cyanobacteria seem to create a new layer on the granule.

In China, government scientists sprayed a cyanobacteria - loaded slurry over growing sand dunes and stopped their advance.

Cyanobacteria can be grown in special algae labs and irradiated with light.

Algae and cyanobacteria are complicated critters: although they can grow in open ponds, unwanted microbial strains can easily contaminate the water and interfere with the growth of the fuel - making strains.

And if the cyanobacteria are growing in water short on iron, an essential nutrient for them, the slowdown in nitrogen fixation can overwhelm any positive growth effects from extra CO2.

So if cyanobacteria are shaping the temperature of their growing patch of the ocean to favor themselves over cold - water critters, researchers want to know how they are doing it and what to expect next, says climate scientist Sebastian Sonntag of the University of Hamburg in Germany.

Because cyanobacteria also grow well in still water, blooms are becoming more frequent in rivers that have been dammed to create reservoirs.

Because Earth's freshwater is limited, using saltwater to grow cyanobacteria will produce biofuels that are an even more sustainable energy choice.