Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors

Abstract

considerable interest in farming cyanobacteria for the production of commercial goods (e.g., biofuels), but scaled cultivation of these microbes is stymied by economic barriers to processing large liquid volumes containing small, tough cells. In a study by Jordan et al. (e00053-17), division machinery of cyanobacteria was tunably controlled to disentangle processes of growth from cell division. The authors show that cyanobacteria can be triggered to increase in size by (cid:2) 3 orders of magnitude, creating cells more amenable to harvest and lysis. As such, they show that genetic approaches can be used to engineer cyanobacteria that are more compatible with bioprocessing equipment, rather than vice versa. They found that was a key predictor of anti- B. dendrobatidis bacterial richness and prevalence. indicate that harbor diverse antifungal bacteria that vary across the and likely serve a protective