Figure 2.

a. Phase plane diagram of glycerol versus glucose uptake while optimizing for growth on Middlebrook media. iNJ661 can grow with glycerol serving as the sole carbon source, but not glucose. The open dots are the calculated phase points and the solid black lines indicate isoclines. b. Phase plane diagram for phosphate versus sulfate uptake on Middlebrook media. Although the transport fluxes are very small, they are both necessary for the organism to be able to grow.