. 2015 Apr 28;3:57. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00057

Table 1.

Plant secondary metabolites produced by genetically engineered cyanobacteria.

Products	Yield	Host	Reference
Ethylene	~512 μg L⁻¹ h⁻¹ OD730⁻¹^b	S. elongatus PCC 7942	Takahama et al. (2003)
	~3.9 μg L⁻¹ h⁻¹ OD730^−1b	S. elongatus PCC 7942	Jindou et al. (2014)
Isoprene	50 μg (g dry cell)⁻¹ day⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Lindberg et al. (2010)
	~125 μg (g dry cell)⁻¹ day⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Bentley et al. (2014)
Caffeic acid^a	7.2 mg L⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Xue et al. (2014b)
ρ-coumaric acid^a	82.6 mg L⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Xue et al. (2014a)
Mannitol	0.15 g L⁻¹ day⁻¹	Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002	Jacobsen and Frigaard (2014)
Limonene	56 μg L⁻¹ day⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Kiyota et al. (2014)
	50 μg L⁻¹ h⁻¹	Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002	Davies et al. (2014)
Carotenoid^a	8.4 mg (g dry cell)⁻¹	Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	Kudoh et al. (2014)

^aTime over which the yield was achieved is not provided in the publication.

^bThe yield is calculated from ethylene gas production of 451 nL mL⁻¹ h⁻¹ OD370⁻¹ reported by Takahama et al. (2003). The authors believe that the rate of 37 mg L⁻¹ h⁻¹ previously attributed to this study (Lan and Liao, 2011; Shen and Liao, 2012; Wang et al., 2012) is incorrect.