The initial
increase in OD (Tables 1a–1e) and CDW was mainly due to cell
growth (Fig. 1). It was evident from CDW measurements, that bacteria were able to have a reasonable growth of above 5 g/l CDW
by 24 h in all the cases except for salt concentrations of 12 g/l and
15 g/l NaCl, which resulted in much lower CDW of 1.9 g/l and 2 g/l
at 24 h, respectively (Fig. 1).