Influence of nutrient limitation on bacterial patterns: applying a new bacterial cellular automaton growth model
Influence de la limitation des nutriments sur les patterns bactériens : développement d'un nouveau automate cellulaire de croissance
Résumé
The nutrient concentration greatly influences the formation of various colony patterns generated by bacterial populations. We consider a 2D cellular automaton growth model of bacterial colony in the case of nutrient limitation. The present cellular automaton simulates the growth process in order to obtain these patterns in the case of random inoculation. We show that numerical patterns are close to those experimentally observed in the literature.