This Research Topic builds on momentum following the 12th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria held in Toledo, OH, USA in May 2022. Toledo gained international notoriety as a result of a water crisis in August 2014 when the municipality issued a ‘do not drink’ advisory on their water supply directly affecting over 400,000 residential customers. This event highlighted the threat that harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose to human health and brought this important issue back into the focus of politicians and environmental agencies. As many studies link severity of HABs to a warming climate and changing precipitation patterns, the threat posed by these events is expected to grow with HABs increasing in distribution, duration, and frequency, leading to unbalanced, and degraded, ecosystems. Addressing this global concern, research is aimed at understanding the environmental factors contributing to bloom formation and decline, toxin and secondary metabolite synthesis, bloom ecology, and mitigation of cyanobacterial HAB events.
The 12th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (May 22-27 Toledo OH, USA) brought together over 200 researchers from 17 foreign countries to share their most recent research findings in on the topics listed below. This Research Topics volume aims to showcase the state of the science related to cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, while also providing potential solutions to this growing threat to our water supplies. We encourage the conference participants as well as researchers that were not present at the conference to contribute to this Research topic.
We seek original research papers from contributors addressing the topics below.
1) Detection, identification and diversity of cHABs
2) Toxic cyanobacteria in the context of climate change
3) Ecology of toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater and coastal systems
4) Secondary cyanometabolites, structure, biosynthesis, and activity
5) cHABs and ‘Omics: advances in genetics, transcriptomics, metabolomic and proteomics to understanding cHABs
We acknowledge the funding of the manuscripts published in this Research Topic by Bowling Green State University. We hereby state publicly that Bowling Green State University has had no editorial input in articles included in this Research Topic, thus ensuring that all aspects of this Research Topic are evaluated objectively, unbiased by any specific policy or opinion of Bowling Green State University.
This Research Topic builds on momentum following the 12th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria held in Toledo, OH, USA in May 2022. Toledo gained international notoriety as a result of a water crisis in August 2014 when the municipality issued a ‘do not drink’ advisory on their water supply directly affecting over 400,000 residential customers. This event highlighted the threat that harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose to human health and brought this important issue back into the focus of politicians and environmental agencies. As many studies link severity of HABs to a warming climate and changing precipitation patterns, the threat posed by these events is expected to grow with HABs increasing in distribution, duration, and frequency, leading to unbalanced, and degraded, ecosystems. Addressing this global concern, research is aimed at understanding the environmental factors contributing to bloom formation and decline, toxin and secondary metabolite synthesis, bloom ecology, and mitigation of cyanobacterial HAB events.
The 12th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (May 22-27 Toledo OH, USA) brought together over 200 researchers from 17 foreign countries to share their most recent research findings in on the topics listed below. This Research Topics volume aims to showcase the state of the science related to cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, while also providing potential solutions to this growing threat to our water supplies. We encourage the conference participants as well as researchers that were not present at the conference to contribute to this Research topic.
We seek original research papers from contributors addressing the topics below.
1) Detection, identification and diversity of cHABs
2) Toxic cyanobacteria in the context of climate change
3) Ecology of toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater and coastal systems
4) Secondary cyanometabolites, structure, biosynthesis, and activity
5) cHABs and ‘Omics: advances in genetics, transcriptomics, metabolomic and proteomics to understanding cHABs
We acknowledge the funding of the manuscripts published in this Research Topic by Bowling Green State University. We hereby state publicly that Bowling Green State University has had no editorial input in articles included in this Research Topic, thus ensuring that all aspects of this Research Topic are evaluated objectively, unbiased by any specific policy or opinion of Bowling Green State University.
