A model of the circadian clock in the cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The over consumption of fossil fuels has led to growing concerns over climate change and global warming. Increasing research activities have been carried out towards alternative viable biofuel sources. Of several different biofuel platforms, cyanobacteria possess great potential, for their ability to accumulate biomass tens of times faster than traditional oilseed crops. The cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 has recently attracted lots of research interest as a model organism for such research. Cyanothece can perform efficiently both photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation within the same cell, and has been recently shown to produce biohydrogen--a byproduct of nitrogen fixation--at very high rates of several folds higher than previously described hydrogen-producing p

SUBMITTER: Vinh NX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3549803 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature