Sentences with phrase «if cyanobacteria»

Even if the cyanobacteria can create large volumes of ethylene, their success will depend on whether the product can become cost - competitive.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

If fish eat more cyanobacteria and accumulate more BMAA in their bodies, he reasons, then the health impact on humans could well get worse.

Project leader Robert Kourist explains: «If the enzymes are coupled to the photosynthesis of the cyanobacteria, expensive waste and by - products can be avoided and the biotechnological production of chemicals becomes easier, faster and cheaper.»

If enzymes are genetically introduced into cyanobacteria, thanks to their catalytic function they will drive the chemical reaction, thus rendering the expensive reducing equivalent superfluous.

In the meantime one idea might be to take the research a step back and see if carbon nanotubes have similar impacts in the root of all chloroplasts: cyanobacteria, according to Giraldo.

Chisholm's group showed that when viruses known to attack cyanobacteria are mixed with the vesicles, the viruses attach to the vesicles and appear to infect them as if the vesicles were living cells.