{"id":166067,"date":"2023-06-19T23:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/unexpected-discovery-blue-green-algae-produce-oil"},"modified":"2023-06-19T23:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:27:45","slug":"unexpected-discovery-blue-green-algae-produce-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/unexpected-discovery-blue-green-algae-produce-oil","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected discovery: Blue-green algae produce oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> Year 2020<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cyanobacteria \u2014 colloquially also called blue-green algae \u2014 can produce oil from water and carbon dioxide with the help of light. This is shown by a recent study by the University of Bonn. The result is unexpected: Until now, it was believed that this ability was reserved for plants. It is possible that blue-green algae will now also become interesting as suppliers of feed or fuel, especially since they do not require arable land. The results have now been published in the journal <em>PNAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What do rapeseed, avocado and olive tree have in common? They are all used by humans as producers of oil or fat. However, the ability to produce oil from water and carbon dioxide with the help of light is something that is essentially common to all plants, from unicellular algae to the giant sequoia trees. \u201cWe have now shown for the first time that cyanobacteria can do the same,\u201d explains biologist Prof. Dr. Peter D\u00f6rmann from the Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants (IMBIO) at the University of Bonn. \u201cThis was a complete surprise, not only to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until now, experts had assumed that cyanobacteria lack this property. After all, they are actually bacteria, even if their trivial name \u201cblue-green algae\u201d suggests otherwise. They therefore differ considerably from plants in many respects: Cyanobacteria are closer related to the intestinal bacterium E. coli than to an olive tree. \u201cThere are indeed ancient reports in the literature that cyanobacteria can contain oil,\u201d says D\u00f6rmann. \u201cBut these have never been verified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three Year 2020 Cyanobacteria \u2014 colloquially also called blue-green algae \u2014 can produce oil from water and carbon dioxide with the help of light. This is shown by a recent study by the University of Bonn. The result is unexpected: Until now, it was believed that this ability was reserved for plants. It is possible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}