TABLE 1.

Growth of S. aciditrophicus with 10 mM crotonate and different cosubstrates

Cosubstrate	Maximum absorbance reached after 10 days of incubationa
None	0.26 ± 0.02
Benzoate	0.10 ± 0.01
o-Phthalate	0.24 ± 0.02
2-Fluorobenzoate	0.04 ± 0.01
3-Fluorobenzoate	0.04 ± 0.01
4-Fluorobenzoate	0.22 ± 0.02
p-Aminobenzoate	0.24 ± 0.01
2-Chlorobenzoate	0.25 ± 0.02
3-Chlorobenzoate	0.20 ± 0.01
4-Chlorobenzoate	0.24 ± 0.02
2-Hydroxybenzoate	0.23 ± 0.01
3-Hydroxybenzoate	0.25 ± 0.01
4-Hydroxybenzoate	0.26 ± 0.01
o-Toluate	0.26 ± 0.01

^aData are means ± standard deviations of triplicate cultures.