Steady state kinetics cellular processes

For limiting nutrients, cellular concentrations are constant under conditions of steady-state growth. To ensure that the limiting nutrient is not diluted in the microbial population, kmt must be greater than the maximal growth rate, /imax. This limiting condition sets a minimum for the value of the Monod constant, Kmd = / max /[7]- Note that while Monod kinetics are more applicable than first-order kinetics for many ecological uptake processes, solutions of the above equations require considerably more a priori information [48]. 

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