Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate

Soil carbon cycling and ecosystem functioning can strongly depend on how microbial communities regulate their metabolism and adapt to changing environmental conditions to improve their fitness. Investing in extracellular enzymes is an important strategy for the acquisition of resources, but the principle behind the trade-offs between enzyme production and growth is not entirely clear. In the paper associated to this resource, we show that the enzyme production rate per unit biomass may be regulated in order to maximize the biomass specific growth rate. Here we provide the Mathematica code, with data embedded, used to draw the Figures.