The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms
Fig 2
High-pressure water Jet treatment with the a) high pressure treatment device. b) Barplot of the enumerated mean of adherent membrane intact (green) and membrane damaged (red) cells after a high pressure treatment at 4 bar for 2 minutes, vertical bars denote the Standard Error. Photograph of the 21 month old biofilm attached to c) Polylactic acid and d) Low density polyethylene. Resulting spots e; f) in respective biofilms after high pressure treatment. Double stained (SYBR Green & PI) cells on respective substrate g; h) after high pressure treatment with, scale bars are 10 μm.