[内容简介]

A significant component of many different ecosystems, cyanobacteria occupy almost every niche of the earth, including fresh and salt waters, rice fields, hot springs, arid deserts, and polar regions. Cyanobacteria, along with algae, produce nearly half the global oxygen, making assessment of their ecophysiologies important for understanding climate impacts and potential remediation. Stress Biology of Cyanobacteria: Molecular Mechanisms to Cellular Responses is a compilation of holistic responses of cyanobacteria, ranging from ecological and physiological to the modern aspects of their molecular biology, genomics, and biochemistry.

Covering almost every aspect of cyanobacterial stress biology, this book is divided into two parts: Bioenergetics and Molecular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance and Cellular Responses and Ecophysiology. The first few chapters focus on the molecular bioenergetics of photosynthesis and respiration in cyanobacteria, and provide a clear perspective on different stress tolerance mechanisms. Part I also covers the effect of specific stresses—including heavy metal, high and low temperature, salt, osmotic, and UV-B stress—on a wide range of vital physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes of cyanobacteria.

Part II describes mechanisms of symbiosis, stress-induced bioproducts, and the role of environmental factors on nitrogen fixation, which along with photosynthesis is a major contributor to the current geochemical status of the planet. The text also covers mutation and cyanobacterial adaptation, and the most widely studied cyanotoxin, microcystin, which has effects on both human and animal health. With contributions from experts around the world, representing the global importance of cyanobacteria, this book provides a broad compilation of research that deals with cyanobacterial stress responses in both controlled laboratory conditions as well as in their natural environment.

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Bioenergetics and Molecular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance

Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria
Dmitriy Shevela, Roman Y. Pishchalnikov, Lutz A. Eichacker, and Govindjee

Water Oxidation and Water-Oxidizing Complex in Cyanobacteria
Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour, Atefeh Nemati Moghaddam, Jian-Ren Shen, and Govindjee

Origin, Evolution, and Interaction of Bioenergetic Processes of Cyanobacteria under Normal and Stressful Environments
Günter A. Peschek, Christian Obinger, and Surya Kant Mehta

Understanding the Mechanisms of Abiotic Stress Management in Cyanobacteria with Special Reference to Proteomics

Snigdha Rai, Sarita Pandey, Alok Kumar Shrivastava, Prashant Kumar Singh, Chhavi Agrawal, and Lal Chand Rai

Molecular Chaperones and Stress Tolerance in Cyanobacteria
Hitoshi Nakamoto

Heat Stress Management in Synechocystis PCC 6803: The Interplay between Membranes and Stress Protein Molecular Chaperones
Attila Glatz, Zsolt Török, László Vígh, and Ibolya Horváth

Sensing and Molecular Responses to Low Temperature in Cyanobacteria
Jogadhenu S.S. Prakash, Pilla Sankara Krishna, and Sisinthy Shivaji

Salt Toxicity and Survival Strategies of Cyanobacteria
Poonam Bhargava and Ashish Kumar Srivastava

Cyanobacterial Salt Stress Acclimation: Genetic Manipulation and Regulation
Nadin Pade and Martin Hagemann

Regulatory Mechanisms of Cyanobacteria in Response to Osmotic Stress
Aran Incharoensakdi and Rungaroon Waditee-Sirisattha

Molecular Mechanisms of UV-B Stress Tolerance in Cyanobacteria
Richa, Rajeshwar P. Sinha, and Donat-P. Häder

Zinc Homeostasis in Cyanobacteria
Lee Hudek, Agnes Michalczyk, Brett Anthony Neilan, and M. Leigh Ackland 

Cellular Responses and Ecophysiology

Cyanobacteria in Symbiosis: Cellular Responses
Mayashree B. Syiem and Amar Nath Rai

A Global Understanding of Light Stress in Cyanobacteria: Environmental and Bioproducts Perspectives
Nishikant V. Wase, Saw Ow Yen, and Phillip C. Wright

Environmental Factors Regulating Nitrogen Fixation in Heterocystous and Non-Heterocystous Cyanobacteria
Lucas J. Stal

Adaptation of Cyanobacteria to Anthropogenic and Natural Stress: The Role Played by Spontaneous Mutation
Raquel Gonzalez, Camino García-Balboa, Eduardo Costas, and Victoria Lopez-Rodas

Benthic Microcystin and Climatic Change
Marina Aboal

Hepatotoxic Microcystins of Cyanobacteria: Biosynthesis and Degradation in Response to Abiotic Stress
Ashutosh Kumar Rai, Leanne Andrea Pearson, and Ashok Kumar

Structural, Physiological, and Ecological Adaptations in Cyanobacterial Mats under Stressful Environment
Pushpendra Kumar Mishra, John L. Sailo and Surya Kant Mehta