Where the microbe Prochlorococcus lives is not determined primarily by temperature, as previously thought. A study finds a relationship with a shared predator actually sets the microbe's range ...

Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number ...

The toxins that leach into seawater severely affect bacteria that provide perhaps 20 percent of Earth's oxygen. That's where things get complicated.

Plastic pollution harms bacteria in the ocean that produce 10 per cent of oxygen we breathe, new research has revealed. Chemicals leached from plastic interfere with the growth of prochlorococcus ...

Prochlorococcus is the smallest oxygenic phototroph in the ocean, where it can be found in great abundance throughout the euphotic zone in mid-latitude waters. Populations of this picocyanobacterium ...

Following this study, the team plans to introduce Prochlorococcus α-carboxysome into plant chloroplasts and investigate whether the minimal α-carboxysome can improve the photosynthetic ...

Research on Prochlorococcus, the most abundant life form in the oceans, shows the bacterium's metabolism evolved in a way that may have helped trigger the rise of other organisms, to form a more ...

Measuring between 0.5 and 0.7 micro­meters, Prochlorococcus is the smallest known ­oxygen-­producing photosynthetic organism. With tens of thousands in every drop of much of the world’s ...

Marine Microbe Celebrates 20th AnniversaryAbout 20 years ago, researchers discovered Prochlorococcus, a photosynthetic marine microorganism. Penny Chisholm, a biologist at MIT whose work led to ...

Prochlorococcus is a type of a cyanobacterium, a microbe that meets its energy needs through photosynthesis. It is estimated to be responsible for 5% of all photosynthesis occurring around the world, ...