diauxic growth

diauxic growth

[dī′ȯk‚sik ′grōth]
(microbiology)
The diphasic response of a culture of microorganisms based on a phenotypic adaptation to the addition of a second substrate; characterized by a growth phase followed by a lag after which growth is resumed.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Therefore, galactose is consumed more slowly than glucose by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Ostergaard, Olsson, Johnston, & Nielsen, 2000), showing a diauxic growth pattern, which results in reduced ethanol productivity.
Optimized acid hydrolysis of the polysaccharides from the seaweed Solieria filiformis (Kutzing) P.W. Gabrielson for bioethanol production/Hidrolise acida otimizada dos polissacarideos da macroalga Solieria filiformis (Kutzing) P.W. Gabrielson para producao de bioetanol
Enzyme production varied depending on carbon source [14] and the variation in carbon sources can change the production of enzyme from extracellular to cell-associated diauxic growth [15].
Effect of media composition on L-glutaminase production from lagoon Vibrio sp. SFL-2
The bacterium showed diauxic growth pattern in medium-A due to the availability of two nutrients, such as thiosulfate first and later tetrathionate, as an intermediate in the culture medium (Tuovinen and Kelly, 1974; Wood and Kelly, 1986; Shooner et al., 1996).
Isolation and characterization of facultatively autotrophic, acidophilic, thermophilic bacterium, Thiobacillus thermosulfatus sp. Nov. from coal mine overburden spoil
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