Genomic Insights on the Carbon-Negative Workhorse: Systematical Comparative Genomic Analysis on 56 Strains.

, a type of ancient photosynthetic cyanobacteria, is crucial in modern carbon-negative synthetic biology due to its potential for producing bioenergy and high-value products. With its high biomass, fast growth rate, and established genetic manipulation tools, has become a research focus in recent years. Abundant germplasm resources have been accumulated from various habitats, including temperature and salinity conditions relevant to industrialization.

[Advances of polymer-monomer production by cyanobacterial cell factory].

Cyanobacteria is one of the promising microbial chassis in synthetic biology, which serves as a typical host for light-driven production. With the gradual depletion of fossil resources and intensification of global warming, the research on cyanobacterial cell factory using CO2 as carbon resource is ushering in a new wave. For a long time, research focus on cyanobacterial cell factory has mainly been the production of energy products, such as liquid fuels and hydrogen.