I read that in order to facilitate the production of huge amounts of membrane for oxygenic photosynthesis, that is, taking place with the release of oxygen (as opposed to anoxygenic photosynthesis) and the change taking place in plants and cyanobacteria from phospholipids to glyceroglycolipids as the main component of membranes, may have given cyanobacteria an evolutionary advantage, because the availability of phosphate, which is used in the synthesis of phospholipids, it is limited.
I found that information, but I am not sure where and do you have maybe more information about that in articles etc.
Dear Jakub Hryc In the similar question asked here https://www.reddit.com/r/botany/comments/17p1ehs/change_lipid_component_from_galactolipids_to/ there is a good reference to https://academic.oup.com/pcp/article/59/6/1128/4990989?login=false where the message is not so much that phosphate is limited (which would have been sheer nonsense because all (cell)membranes of animals, including those of us humans, and most of the bacteria consist mainly of phospholipids) but more that “these two lipids [the galactolipids MGDG and DGDG] are important for maintaining chloroplast morphology and for plant survival under abiotic stresses such as phosphate starvation and freezing”
Best regards.
PS. The question should be the other way around from phospholipids to galactolipids....
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