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The maintenance energy of bacteria in growing cultures
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The variation, with growth rate, of the yield of organism from the substrate used as energy source is attributed to consumption of energy at a constant rate for cell maintenance. From the laws of growth, a simple relation between the maintenance requirement, the growth yield and the growth rate is derived. The relation is shown to be in good agreement with the available data. A distinction is made between ‘observed’ yield and ‘true’ yield of organisms. Values for maintenance energies and ‘true growth yields’ have been calculated from the data.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pirt, S. J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1965-10-12
- Volume
- 163
- Issue
- 991
- Pages
- 224-231
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 2053-9193
- OpenAlex
- W2052078471
- Cited by
- 1,442
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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