Gross negligence: impacts of microplastics and plastic leachates on phytoplankton community and ecosystem dynamics

C Amaneesh, S Anna Balan, PS Silpa… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastic debris is an established environmental menace affecting aquatic systems globally.
Recently, microplastics (MP) and plastic leachates (PL) have been detected in vital human …

Perspective: Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change

MA Burford, CC Carey, DP Hamilton, J Huisman… - Harmful Algae, 2020 - Elsevier
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (= cyanoHABs) are an increasing feature of many
waterbodies throughout the world. Many bloom-forming species produce toxins, making …

Models predict planned phosphorus load reduction will make Lake Erie more toxic

FL Hellweger, RM Martin, F Eigemann, DJ Smith… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Harmful cyanobacteria are a global environmental problem, yet we lack actionable
understanding of toxigenic versus nontoxigenic strain ecology and toxin production. We …

The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis

GJ Dick, MB Duhaime, JT Evans… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microcystis is a cyanobacterium that forms toxic blooms in freshwater ecosystems around
the world. Biological variation among taxa within the genus is apparent through genetic and …

Heterotrophic Bacteria Dominate Catalase Expression during Microcystis Blooms

DJ Smith, MA Berry, RM Cory… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the oligotrophic oceans, key autotrophs depend on “helper” bacteria to reduce oxidative
stress from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the extracellular environment. H2O2 is also a …

Suppression of water-bloom cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa by algaecide hydrogen peroxide maximized through programmed cell death

T Zhou, H Cao, J Zheng, F Teng, X Wang, K Lou… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
The global expansion and intensification of toxic cyanobacterial blooms require effective
algaecides. Algaecides should be selective, effective, fast-acting, and ideally suppress …

Regulation of photosynthesis in bloom-forming cyanobacteria with the simplest β-diketone

M Yilimulati, J Jin, X Wang, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Selective inhibition of photosynthesis is a fundamental strategy to solve the global challenge
caused by harmful cyanobacterial blooms. However, there is a lack of specificity of the …

Effects of rising atmospheric CO2 levels on physiological response of cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial bloom development: A review

J Ma, P Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration negatively impacts aquatic ecosystems and may
exacerbate the problem of undesirable cyanobacterial bloom development in freshwater …

The efficacy of hydrogen peroxide in mitigating cyanobacterial blooms and altering microbial communities across four lakes in NY, USA

MW Lusty, CJ Gobler - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has been proposed as an agent to mitigate toxic cyanobacterial
blooms due to the heightened sensitivity of cyanobacteria to reactive oxygen species …

The chemistry and biology of guanidine secondary metabolites

RGS Berlinck, DI Bernardi, T Fill… - Natural Product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2017–2019 Guanidine natural products isolated from microorganisms, marine
invertebrates and terrestrial plants, amphibians and spiders, represented by non-ribosomal …