Table II:

ANOVA results for the effects of temperature, pH and strain on growth rates of C. acidophila

Source of variation	DF	SS	MS	F	P-value
Temperature	2	3.104	1.552	637.249	<0.001
pH	3	4.889	1.630	669.211	<0.001
Strain	1	0.395	0.395	162.166	<0.001
Temperature × pH	2	0.358	0.0596	24.468	<0.001
Temperature × strain	6	0.354	0.177	72.601	<0.001
pH × strain	3	0.0188	0.00625	2.567	0.065
Temp. × pH × Strain	6	0.0549	0.00915	3.757	0.004
Residual	48	0.117	0.00244
Total	71	9.290	0.131