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. 2014 May 7;9(5):e96807. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096807

Table 4. Axenic E. coli growth measured gravimetrically.

Substrate E. coli productivity (mg/L/d) Final E. coli density (mg/L)
Glucose
0 g/L 0.05 (0.91) c 1.5 (4.4) c
0.5 g/L 38.01 (0.53) b 194.5 (2.5) b
2 g/L 87.99 (17.91) a 439.1 (90.1) a
10 g/L 56.7 (0.80) b 288.3 (4.0) b
Glycerol
0 g/L - -
0.5 g/L 32.90 (1.00) b 171.8 (4.5) b
2 g/L 62.44 (3.16) a 320.7 (14.7) a
10 g/L 63.09 (1.94) a 325.2 (11.9) a
Acetate
0 g/L - -
0.5 g/L 22.12 (0.41) a 115.3 (1.9) a
2 g/L 40.04 (34.03)* 202.9 (170.3)*
10 g/L 1.27 (0.25) b 11.0 (1.6) b

Productivities are five-day averages. Mean values are followed by standard deviations in parenthesis. Within a batch, values connected by the same letter are not significantly different at the 0.05 level.

*Variability was too large to include this treatment in the multiple comparison.