1. Development of anaerobic sludge bed (ASB) reactor technologies for domestic wastewater treatment: motives and perspectives

   • Youssouf Kalogo
   • Willy Verstraete

   OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 534

2. Molecular and biochemical aspects of rhizobacterial ecology with emphasis on biological control

   • Veena Kumari
   • J.S. Srivastava

   OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 543

3. Isolation, taxonomic and fermentation studies on a new strain of Streptomyces arenae var ukrainiana producing a tetraene antibiotic

   • T.E. Gupte
   • S.R. Naik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 545 - 552

4. Effects of sunlight and Synechocystis sp. (picocyanobacterium) on the incidence of antibiotic resistance in wastewater enteric bacteria

   • Kh. Oufdou
   • N. Mezrioui
   • A. Ait Alla

   OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 559

5. Purification and some properties of an α-amylase glucoamylase fusion protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Lidia M.P. de Moraes
   • Spartaco Astolfi Filho
   • Cirano J. Ulhoa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 564

6. Plasmid-mediated degradation of o- and p-phthalate by Pseudomonas fluorescens

   • S. Karpagam
   • D. Lalithakumari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 569

7. The mechanism of cadmium removal from aqueous solution by nonmetabolizing free and immobilized live biomass of Rhizopus oligosporus

   • R. Aloysius
   • M.I.A. Karim
   • A.B. Ariff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 571 - 578

8. Characterization of a secreted cholesterol oxidase from Rhodococcus sp.GKI (CIP 105335)

   • A. Elalami
   • J. Kreit
   • P. Germain

   OriginalPaper Pages: 579 - 585

9. Kinetic characterization in batch and continuous culture of Escherichia coli mutants affected in phosphoenolpyruvate metabolism: differences in acetic acid production

   • R. Sigüenza
   • N. Flores
   • F. Valle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 592

10. Yeasts in the traditional brewing of pito in Ghana

    • S. Sefa-Dedeh
    • A.I. Sanni
    • E. Sakyi-Dawson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 597

11. Copper uptake and its compartmentalization in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains: Chemical nature of cellular metal

    • Sufia K. Kazy
    • Pinaki Sar
    • S.P. Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 605

12. Immunological characterization of spore proteins of the microsporidian Nosema bombycis

    • T. Anitha Sironmani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 613

13. A feasibility study for the in situ remediation of a former tank farm

    • R. Margesin
    • F. Schinner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 615 - 622

14. Improvement of clavulanic acid production by Streptomyces clavuligerus in medium containing soybean derivatives

    • Ester R. Gouveia
    • Alvaro Baptista-Neto
    • Carlos O. Hokka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 627

15. Saké brewing characteristics and multidrug resistance of trichothecin-resistant yeast mutants

    • Hisashi Fukuda
    • Sang Bae Park
    • Kojiro Takahashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 629 - 630

16. Enzymatic resolution of 3-(3-indolyl)butyric acid: a key intermediate for indolmycin synthesis

    • Katsuya Kato
    • Satoko Tanaka
    • Hiroshi Kimoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 633

17. Preparation of conditioned medium to stimulate anthocyanin production using suspension cultures of Fragaria ananassa cells

    • Tsukasa Mori
    • Miei Sakura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 635 - 637

18. Survival of, and plasmid transfer between modified Enterobacter cloacae strains under long-term starvation conditions in a continuous-flow system

    • Li Sun
    • Michael J. Bazin
    • James M. Lynch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 639 - 642

19. Purification and characterization of an extracellular polygalacturonase from the thermophilic fungus, Thermomyces lanuginosus

    • S. Sathish Kumar
    • P. Palanivelu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 643 - 646

20. Influence of calcium on fungal growth and citric acid production during fermentation of a sugarcane molasses-based medium by a strain of Aspergillus niger

    • L.M. Pera
    • D.A. Callieri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 647 - 649

21. Calendar entries

    OriginalPaper Pages: 651 - 651