“…The wavelength of light affects the physiological characteristics of algae. Irradiation with blue light has been shown to promote diatom growth (Holdsworth, 1985;Li et al, 2020;Shikata et al, 2009), whereas it adversely affects the growth of various cyanobacteria (Wyman & Fay, 1986), including M. aeruginosa (Khan et al, 2016;Tan et al, 2020), Pseudanabaena mucicola (Khatoon et al, 2018), Synechocystis PCC6803 (Bland & Angenent, 2016), Cyanobacterium aponinum (Meng et al, 2018), and Spirulina platensis (Chen et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2007). Luimstra et al (2018Luimstra et al ( , 2019 reported that growth is considerably reduced in the phycobilisome-containing cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp.…”