Re: Consequences of killing all plants in a large'sh area, and preventing new ones from growing?

In message <hem9qp$24pb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Peter Knutsen <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do cyanobacteria do photosynthesis?

Hell, yes. They invented it. Every other organism that does
photosynthesis probably has picked up cyanobacteria as endosymbionts
at some point, e.g., chloroplasts were derived that way.

There are several groups of photosynthetic bacteria other than cyanobacteria - green sulfur bacteria, green non-sulfur bacteria and purple sulfur bacteria, and several groups of purple bacteria. None of these produce oxygen as a by product of photosynthesis.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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