Figure 4.
Growth curves of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 wild type (A); SeWT) and evolved strains: SeSCar (B); by cyclic exposure to prolonged sublethal treatments of carvacrol) and SeLCar (C); by cyclic exposure to short lethal treatments of carvacrol), in the absence (▬) and presence of 50 (▬), 100 (▬), 150 (▬), 200 (▬), 250 (▬), 300 (▬) and 350 µL/L (▬) of carvacrol, modelled using the modified Gompertz equation (Equation (1)).