WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine
Print ISSN: 1109-9518, E-ISSN: 2224-2902
Volume 10, 2013
Optimizing the Productivity in a Chemostat Model of Plasmid-Bearing Plasmid-Free Competition: The Case of General Uptake Functions
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Abstract: The paper investigates a dynamical model of plasmid-bearing, plasmid-free competition in the chemostat with general specific growth rates. Based on a feedback control, global stabilization of the dynamics towards a practically important coexistence equilibrium point is achieved. The latter result is used to optimize the productivity of the chemostat. Results from computer simulation are reported to illustrate the theoretical studies.