Fig. 7
From: Extreme slow growth as alternative strategy to survive deep starvation in bacteria
Cell growth under deep starvation conditions. B. subtilis ΔspoIIE cells (strain DG001) were incubated for 14 days in starvation buffer. At regular time intervals samples were withdrawn and incubated with the cell division inhibitor 3-methoxybenzamide (3-MBA) for 48 h. a Cells were stained with the fluorescent membrane dye FM5-95 in order to determine cell length before and after 3-BMA treatment. Scale bar is 2 µm. b Average change in cell length was calculated for approximately 100 individual cells for each time point. Bar diagram depicts the average and standard deviation of three independent experiments
