Bacterial isolates

Conversion efficiency
(%)1

Growth yield (gcells/gn-hex.)2

Specific growth rate  (h-1)

Generation time (hr)

BDCC-TUSA-1
BDCC-TUSA-2
BDCC-TUSA-3

98.8
69.7
82.4

0.624
0.49
0.596

0.063
0.049
0.062

11.0
14.1
11.2
1, Percentages of n-hexadecane conversion to biomass
2, g biomass (DW) produced from g of consumed hexadecane
Table 1: Growth parameters of the three bacterial isolates grown in MSM with n-hexadecane as carbon and energy source.