Kungang Pan

Abstract Excess light absorption causes severe photo-oxidative damage and limits photosynthetic efficiency. Enhancing high-light (HL) tolerance and energy utilization in photosynthetic cyanobacteria holds great potential for sustainable biomanufacturing. Here, using Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (Syn6803) as a model, we generated eight independently evolved strains tolerant to hyper-HL (2000 μmol photons/m2/s) through approximately two years of natural adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE).

Open AccessArticle by Yue Wang 1, Junhao Sun 1, Mengwei Zhang 1, Kungang Pan 1, Tianhui Liu 1, Tongcun Zhang 1, Xuegang Luo 1, Junqi Zhao 2,* and Zhongyuan Li 1,* 1 State Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China 2 School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Qilu Institute of Technology, Jinan 250200, China * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.