Led by Dr. Jixun Zhan, the researchers started with another type of bacteria that naturally produce the blue pigment, but only in small amounts. To produce usable quantities, Zhan turned to the ...

Photosynthesis is the process plants, algae and some bacteria use to turn ... reaction often relies on a pigment called chlorophyll, which gives plants their green color. Photosynthesis is also ...

green, and blue. Once excited by the colors, the genetic circuitry activates and inspires the bacteria to produce corresponding pigments or fluorescent proteins. Mats of microbes then turn their ...

Blue-green algae ... are more closely related to bacteria, because of their cellular structure and genetics, than they are to algae. Cyanobacteria contain the pigments chlorophyll a, which ...