Fig 7.

Population dynamics during cocultivation of L. fermentum NCC 575 and four L. plantarum strains, i.e., L. plantarum NCC 2829, L. plantarum NCC 1295, L. plantarum NCC 245, and L. plantarum NCC 2936 (Table 1). (A) Individual colony morphology of all strains on LBD agar. (B) Visual inspection of the microbial population after incubation of coculture samples, done at different time points, on LBD agar, with a 5-fold zoom to selected parts of the agar plates. For strain identification, the color and morphology of each colony were compared with those of the pure cultures. (C) Average population composition during cocultivation, as determined from the analysis.