supported by the Joint Sino-GermanResearch Project (GZ984 to X. Lu);the Excellent Youth Award of the Shandong Natural Science Foundation (JQ201306 to X. Lu);the Shandong Taishan Scholarship (X. Lu)
The unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942(Syn7942), synthesizes sucrose as the only compatible solute under salt stress. A series of engineered Syn7942 strains for sucrose production were constr...