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. 2013 Oct;79(19):6083–6092. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02099-13

Table 1.

MICs and MFCs of cadmium in 4- and 7-day-old P. ostreatus free-floating and biofilm cultures and related curve-fitting parameters of a two-term exponential decay modela

System MIC parameters
MFC parameters
Curve fitting
MIC90 (mM) Curve fitting
MFC (mM)
R2adj F k R2adj F k
Free-floating culture
    Four day old 0.933 762.0 0.599 ± 0.027 3.9 0.884b 133.97 0.862 ± 0.148 7.0
    Seven day old 0.878 231.7 2.114 ± 0.26 1.1 0.848 196.5 0.667 ± 0.084 3.5
Biofilm culture
    Four day old 0.938 1,300.3 0.185 ± 0.008 12.4 0.954 1,561.6 0.137 ± 0.007 16.7
    Seven day old 0.979 1,792.7 0.190 ± 0.009 12.2 0.978 2,060.7 0.101 ± 0.004 22.7
a

R2adj, coefficient of determination adjusted by the degrees of freedom; F, Fisher-Snedecor coefficient; k, exponential decay coefficient ± the relative standard error.

b

Best fit with a three-term exponential decay function.