Table 1.

Literature review on the application of cyanobacteria on various plant species and main effects produced.

Genus/Species	Positive Effects (Increase of the Reported Feature)	Plant
Scytonema hofmanii	tolerance to salt stress [58]	rice [58]
Aphanothece sp.	plant growth [59] macro- and micronutrient content [59]	tomato [59]
Tetracystis sp.	plant growth [60] pigment content [60]	rapeseed [60]
Cylindrospermum sp.	plant growth [61,62] pigment content [62] essential oil content [61]	peppermint [61] lupin [62]
Phormidium sp.	plant growth [43,63] antioxidant activity [43,63]	rice [43] Caragana korshinskii [63]
Microcystis aeruginosa	plant growth [64] pigment content [64] macro- and micronutrient content [64] photosynthesis rate [64] tolerance to thermal stress [65]	willow [64] Sida hermaphrodita [65]
Oscillatoria sp.	plant growth [43] pigment content [66] antioxidant activity [43] carbohydrate and protein content [66]	rice [43] sunflower [66]
Arthrospira maxima	antioxidant activity [67]	wheat [67]
Arthrospira fusiformis	bulb diameter [68]	garlic [68]
Calothrix sp.	plant growth [43,61,69,70] macro- and micronutrient content [71] germination [72] seed yield [73] essential oil content [61] phytohormones content [69] antioxidant activity [43,70]	rice [43,69] coriander [70] peppermint [61] wheat [71,73] cotton [72]
Nostoc sp.	plant growth [74,75,76] seed yield [60,73,74] pigment content [74,75,76] tolerance to cold and drought stress [77] leaf relative water content [74]	rapeseed [60] wheat [73,74] cantaloupe [75] lettuce [76] bean [77]
Anabaena sp.	plant growth [43,54,61,62,64,75,76,78] germination [70,72] macro- and micronutrient content [64,71] pigment content [62,64,75,76,78] photosynthesis rate [64] essential oil content [61] phytohormones content [78] antioxidant activity [43] tolerance to thermal stress [65] reduction of heavy metal content [54]	rice [43] spinach [54] peppermint [61] lupin [62] willow [64] Sida hermaphrodita [65] wheat [71] cotton [72] cumin [70] cantaloupe [75] lettuce [76] chrysanthemum [78]
Arthrospira platensis	plant growth [50,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88] macro- and micronutrient content [53,79,83,84,85] pigment content [88] essential oil content [85,87] carbohydrate and protein content [89] vitamin A content [89] phytohormones content [88] earliness of flowering [84] reduction of flower abortion [82] bulb yield, quality, and storage [90] tolerance to salt stress [91] tolerance to cadmium toxicity [92] spermine content [50]	lettuce [50,79] mung bean [53] tomato [53,80,81,82] pepper [80] radish [83] fenugreek [85] red beet [86] cardoon [87] cotton [88] amaranth [53,89] onion [90] petunia [84,91] maize [92]