Environmental drivers for production of the toxin, cylindrospermopsin, by the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

水务部门花费大量资源监测和控制藻华。其中一个重要部分是监测淡水有毒藻类的大量繁殖，这些藻类会影响饮用水和娱乐用水。监测藻华的困难之一是单个物种的毒素含量差异很大。目前尚不清楚这是否是由环境条件的变化引起的，即营养、光线、温度。这个项目将提供环境条件和毒素产生之间的联系，以提高预测和监测毒素产生的能力。

Water authorities spend significant resources to monitor and control algal blooms. A significant part of this is monitoring freshwater toxic algal blooms that can impact on drinking water and recreational uses. One of the difficulties in monitoring blooms is that the toxin content of individual species can vary considerably. It is unclear whether this is caused by changes in environmental conditions, i.e. nutrient, light, temperature. This project would provide the link between environmental conditions and toxin production to improve the ability to predict and monitor toxin production.