Improving tolerance to fluctuating light through adaptive laboratory evolution in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis
Theo Figueroa-Gonzalez, Weiyang Chen, Eslam M. Abdel-Salam, Daniel Štipl, Josef Komenda, Milena Zhivkovikj, Marcel Dann, Dario Leister
This study uses adaptive laboratory evolution to improve Synechocystis tolerance to fluctuating light, identifying mutations that enhance survival under both lethal and non-lethal conditions.
Nature Communications · May 4, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology