Table 2.

Generation time of CGA009 and eight salt-tolerant Rhodopseudomonas palustris strains.

	Generation time(h)
Salt concentration	0%	2%	2.5%	3.0%
CGA009	12.27 ± 0.11	57.21 ± 0.12	165.28 ± 0.06	183.80 ± 0.19
RPAS-1	17.07 ± 0.21	21.62 ± 0.08	35.61 ± 0.19	37.37 ± 0.13
RPAS-2	15.94 ± 0.09	27.85 ± 0.21	31.43 ± 0.13	44.21 ± 0.14
RPAS-3	28.73 ± 0.10	47.42 ± 0.24	43.92 ± 0.11	53.63 ± 0.19
RPAS-4	14.66 ± 0.12	30.63 ± 0.03	35.68 ± 0.13	37.34 ± 0.21
RPAS-5	16.76 ± 0.12	35.71 ± 0.15	33.23 ± 0.19	52.23 ± 0.02
RPAS-6	17.07 ± 0.22	27.40 ± 0.19	35.82 ± 0.17	43.22 ± 0.05
RPAS-10	18.23 ± 0.16	34.82 ± 0.27	34.81 ± 0.23	46.01 ± 0.14
RPAS-11	15.64 ± 0.18	26.93 ± 0.09	37.84 ± 0.29	32.25 ± 0.19