Table 1.

The radial growth of wild type and ΔVdMcm1-5 mutant in response to osmotic stresses with 1 M Sorbitol, 1.2 M NaCl, 1.2 M KCl.

Compound	WT		ΔVdMcm1-5
	Colony diameter (cm)	% growth	Colony diameter (cm)	% growth
Untreated	4.20 ± 0.28	100	1.90 ± 0.1	100
1 M Sorbitol	2.87 ± 0.06	68.3a	1.25 ± 0.07	65.8a
1.2 M NaCl	1.00 ± 0.14	23.8a	0.33 ± 0.06	17.4b
1.2 M KCl	1.45 ± 0.07	34.5a	0.57 ± 0.06	30.0b

The % growth was determined by using radial growth of treated samples divided the radial growth of untreated controls (100). Different letters “a, b” in the same row indicate significant differences at p < 0.05 and the same letters indicate no significant differences, which were calculated using t-test based on three repetitions.