Аннотация:Cyanobacteria, structurally Gram-negative prokaryotes and ancient relatives of
chloroplasts, can assist analysis of photosynthesis and its regulation more easily than can
studies with higher plants. Many genetic tools have been developed for unicellular and filamentous strains of cyanobacteria during the past three decades. These tools provide abundant opportunity for identifying novel genes; for investigating the structure, regulation and evolution of genes; for understanding the ecological roles of cyanobacteria; and for
possible practical applications, such as molecular hydrogen photo production; production of phycobiliproteins to form fluorescent antibody reagents; cyanophycin production; polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis; osmolytes production; nanoparticles formation; mosquito control; heavy metal removal; biodegradative ability of cyanobacteria; toxins formation by bloom-forming cyanobacteria; use of natural products of cyanobacteria for medicine and others aspects of cyanobacteria applications
have been discussed in this chapter.