Fig. 2: Growth of P. denitrificans on ethylene glycol.

a Growth rates of P. denitrificans on different concentrations of ethylene glycol. Data are the mean ± s.d. of n = 6 independently grown cultures. Results were compared using an unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction in GraphPad Prism 8.1.1. *: significantly different from growth rate with lower and higher concentrations of ethylene glycol (p-values in order of increasing ethylene glycol concentration: 0.0001; 0.0001; 0.017; 0.0009; 0.0001; 0.0001). b Growth curves of P. denitrificans on 60 mM glycolate (orange), 60 mM glyoxylate (purple), and 400 mM ethylene glycol (light red). Data are the mean ± s.d. of n = 6 independently grown cultures, with error bars shown in lighter colors. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.