History of the Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substrains PCC-B, GT-B and GT-L as used in the current study (full lines), and their putative relation to Synechocystis substrains that have identified genome sequences (dashed lines, according to Ding et al. (2015) [13]).

The phenotypic properties of individual Synechocystis substrains are listed in accordance with Ikeuchi and Tabata (2001), Rippka et al. (1979), and Williams (1988) [7,16,50], as well as in accordance to personal communication with members of laboratories in Jerusalem and in Moscow.