FIG. 3.

Medium-dependent culturability of the wild type (gray bars) on day 2 of growth on tomato seeds. The lipA mutant (black bars) was unaffected. At the start of the assay, the lipA mutant was inoculated in a 10-fold excess with the wild type. Samples were plated on either 0.01×, 0.1×, or 0.5× TSA. Detectable populations are represented as the average log CFU/sample. Values are the average of three experiments with six samples per experiment. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean.