THE author has examined the details of development of the colony from a single spore, in numerous species, by employing microscopic plate-cultures, which can be kept under observation under a one ...

The scanning electron microscope image shows a colony of bacteria (coloured bluish) around a few micrometres small root (brown) in the soil. The image represents how bacteria and microbial ...

Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are ...

At this point, the signals stop, and the bacteria is no longer able to communicate with its colony. It's easy to imagine that ...