i am also interested in cultivating cyanobacteria. does anyone know of a strain that produces a significant amount of ethanol, and preferably no other toxins?
On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8:05:00 PM UTC-7, PatrickG wrote:
I was pondering the use of organisms in DIYbio, and I was wondering--
what people think of the use of cyanobacteria in this field.
I see a few potential advantages:
1) They are autotrophic, so no worries about feeding them (maybe
this can help reduce contamination)
2) Many are diazotrophic, so they can even use N2 (maybe a cool
DIY project can take advantage of this?)
3) They live an en enormous variety of habitats, so we could use
alkaliphilic, thermophilic strains to even further reduce
contamination (or maybe for the fun of it), or we could use a
mesophilic strain
4) While some produce toxins, I don't think any are pathogenic,
and we can try to avoid strains producing toxins.
I can see some difficulties too, so it'd be cool to hear from anyone
experienced with this... I'm not quite sure if it's easy enough to
manipulate them.. (should be easy enough to culture them though). And
with the colloquial name "blue green algae" they shouldn't really stir
too much false alarm.
What does everyone here think?
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