Construction of an artificial consortium of Escherichia coli and cyanobacteria for clean indirect production of volatile platform hydrocarbons from CO 2.

Productivity parameters of these co-cultures were higher than respective transgenic cultures of E. coli grown individually at similar sucrose concentrations, highlighting the positive impact of the artificial consortia on the production of these platform chemicals.

Using a Countstar instrument, the researchers measured flow-cytometry cell measurements in the study's cell samples during quality assessment for the microbiology research.