Team:BCCS-Bristol/Modeling/Growth Rate

Growth Rate of the Bacterium
It has been shown that the growth rate of single bacteria is a trilinear function. Click here for a link to the paper.

This means that the growth of the bacterium can be divided into 3 phases.
 * Phase 1
 * From time zero, T_0, to the time when formation of the septum begins, T_c.


 * Phase 2
 * From the time when formation of the septum begins, T_c, to the time T_2.


 * Phase 3
 * From the time T_2 to the generation time, T_g.

At each phase there is an individual linear growth rate, or gradient, a. Values for the parameters are shown in the table below:

* Times are in minutes and growth rates are in micrometres/minute.