Table 1 in Gloeobacter and the implications of a freshwater origin of Cyanobacteria

Table 1. Comparison of chlorophyll a per cell, net photosynthetic rate per unit chlorophyll, net photosynthetic rate per cell, and thylakoid area per plasma membrane area in Gloeobacter, Synechocystis and Synechococcus. Data from Kihara et al. (2014). Thylakoid area per plasma membrane area is an upper limit, as indicated by ≤, because the spherical surface area which is the maximum area of the thylakoids is less than that of the plasma membrane because the thylakoids are interior to the plasma membrane. Organism aMole chlorophyll a cell −1Net photosynthetic rate (mole O. 2 mole chlorophyll a −1) s −1Net photosynthetic rate (mole O. 2 cell −1. s −1)Thylakoid area (plasma membrane area)−1Gloeobacter1.27 10−160.0310.62 10−180Synechocystis1.4 10−160.0611.4 10−18≤ 6Synechococcus0.207 10−160.0572.7 10−18≤ 4 a Kihara et al. (2014) do not give strain numbers for the genera of Cyanobacteria modelled.