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Genome size of marine β-cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria 2.2 – 3.6 Mb 117045 Whitehead L, Long BM...
Genome size of marine α-cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria 1.6 – 2.8 Mb 117043 Whitehead L, Long BM...
Diameter of photosystem II Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus 11-21 nm 103908 Ferreira KN, Iverson TM...
Nitrogen fixation rate of cyanobacteria associated with rice paddies Cyanobacteria 2,000 - 3,000 mg N/m^2/yr 110428 Galloway et al., Nitrogen...
Fraction of total primary productivity on earth that is from anoxygenic photosynthesis Biosphere 0.05 % 105040 John A. Raven Functional...
Concentration of ions within cell Archaea Haloarcula marismortui Table - link N/A 104913 Yonath A., The search...
Ratio of ozone to oxygen in the stratosphere of present-day Earth Biosphere ~5×10^-5 unitless 115037 Kihara S, Hartzler DA...
Diameter of photosystem II Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus 13-31 nm 103909 Loll B, Kern J, Saenger W...
Irradiance for the saturation of photosynthesis Unspecified 3,000 μmol photons×m^-2×s^-1 107401 Bernát G, Schreiber U...
Radius of round fibroblast cell Chicken Gallus gallus 7 (±1) µm 105693 Frisch T, Thoumine O....
Percentage of chlorophyll associated with the different photosystems Spinach Spinacia oleracea Table - link N/A 106047 Albertsson P. A quantitative...
Radius of PS II with its light harvesting chlorophyll proteins Barley Hordeum vulgare 8 nm 107146 Mitchell R, Spillmann A...
Number of reactions per subsystem in model Bacteria Escherichia coli Table - link Reactions 107536 Thiele I, Jamshidi N...
Number of chlorophyll per reaction center Plants 400 (100-700) unitless 100376 Nobel, P. S. "Plant ...
Fraction of aquatic primary productivity that is from anoxygenic photosynthesis Biosphere 0.1 % 105039 John A. Raven Functional...
General features of the genome of Synechococcus UTEX 2973 compared to genomes of other related cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. Table - link N/A 112487 Yu J et al., Synechococcus...
Size (diameter) of most abundant cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus 0.6 (0.5-0.7) µm 101520 Partensky F, Hess WR...
Global net primary production of cyanobacteria Biosphere Prochlorococcus 4 (8.5% of ocean net primary production (onpp)) Synechococcus 8 (16.7% of onpp) Gt C/year 112103 Flombaum P et al., Present...
Evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis by cyanobacteria Biosphere ~2.8 Billion years ago 114975 Kihara S, Hartzler DA...
Distribution of global net primary production (NPP) between cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae Biosphere Cyanobacteria (Prokaryotic) 10 - 25%: Eukaryotic algae 75 - 90 % 115193 Mackinder et al., A repeat...