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Synechococcus (Cyanophyceae)

Synechococcus sp.
Photograph posted online

Synechococcus sp.with binary fission
Photograph modified from image by Ralf Wagner, Denmark posted online

Synechococcus sp. with binary fission
Photograph posted online.

Synechococcus aeruginosus ~ 20 x 30 μm, with binary fission
Photograph posted online

An agar plate of Synechococcus strain PCC 7335 expressing more phycoerithrin (right side) when grown in green light rather than red light (left side).  Photograph from Donald A. Bryant's Lab, Pennsylvania State University, PA USA, posted online.

Synechococcus elongates PCC 7942 growth dependence on iron. By down-regulating or up-regulating proteins involved in electron transport, iron starvation induced a reduction of linear photosynthetic electron transport and an increase in respiratory electron transport (Nodop et al. 2008). Posted online.

Nodop, A., D. Pietsch, R. Hocker, A. Becker, E.K. Pistorius, K. Forchhammer and M. Klaus-Peter 2008. Transcript profiling reveals new insights into the acclimation of the mesophilic fresh-water cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 to iron starvation. Plant Physiology 147:747-763.

Synechococcus sp. before (above) and after (below) exposure to the allelotoxin cyanobacterin produced by Scytonema (modified from Mason et al. 1982).

Mason, C.P., K.R. Edwards, R.E. Carlson, J. Pignatello, F.K. Gleason and J.M. Wood 1982. Isolation of chlorine-containing antibiotic from the freshwater cyanobacterium Scytonema hofmanni. Science 215 (4531):400-402.

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