Monod's bacterial growth model revisited

An attempt to justify Monod's bacterial growth model is presented. The justification is based on a mechanistic approach to growth which leads to a differential equation with delay and then to Monod's model. An unexpected increase of parameter K s with μ m is predicted by the theory. A survey of literature shows that this effect is present in a large majority of published data.

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