Figure 4.

R ² obtained for different initial glucose concentrations with the different models. The models’ parameters are optimized for an initial substrate concentration of 4.0 g l⁻¹. The models react differently when this initial concentration is reduced.

A. R ² between the simulated killing curves and the experimental ones.

B. R ² between the simulated persistent population in the antibiotic‐free batch culture and the experimental one. The IM and DM models are more representative of the experimental data than the RMI and RMII models for the initial glucose concentrations of 1.0 and 0.4 g l⁻¹. The DM model gives the best results.