1. Acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation of corn stover by Clostridium species: present status and future perspectives

   • Jianzheng Li
   • Nawa Raj Baral
   • Ajay Kumar Jha

   Review 29 October 2013 Pages: 1145 - 1157

   

2. Pyocyanin: production, applications, challenges and new insights

   • Sheeba Jayaseelan
   • Damotharan Ramaswamy
   • Selvakumar Dharmaraj

   REVIEW 09 November 2013 Pages: 1159 - 1168

   

3. Effect of octanal on the mycelial growth of Penicillium italicum and P. digitatum

   • Nengguo Tao
   • Lei Jia
   • Xiangli He

   Original Paper 27 October 2013 Pages: 1169 - 1175

   

4. Olive mill wastewater treatment in single-chamber air-cathode microbial fuel cells

   • Hakan Bermek
   • Tunc Catal
   • Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı

   Original Paper 29 October 2013 Pages: 1177 - 1185

   

5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Achromobacter sp.: nitrifying aerobic denitrifiers have a plasmid encoding for denitrifying functional genes

   • V. Kathiravan
   • K. K. Krishnani

   Original Paper 29 October 2013 Pages: 1187 - 1198

   

6. Purification and characterization of a laccase from Coprinopsis cinerea in Pichia pastoris

   • Bo Wang
   • Lijuan Wang
   • Quanhong Yao

   Original Paper 01 November 2013 Pages: 1199 - 1206

   

7. Diversity of bacteriocinogenic lactic acid bacteria isolated from Mediterranean fish viscera

   • Sarra Migaw
   • Taoufik Ghrairi
   • Thomas Haertlé

   Original Paper 05 November 2013 Pages: 1207 - 1217

   

8. Serine O-acetyltransferase is important, but not essential for cysteine–methionine synthesis in Fusarium graminearum

   • Jing Fu
   • Xiaoping Zhang
   • Zhonghua Ma

   Original Paper 06 November 2013 Pages: 1219 - 1228

   

9. Co-expression of RCH10 and AGLU1 confers rice resistance to fungal sheath blight Rhizoctonia solani and blast Magnorpathe oryzae and reveals impact on seed germination

   • Bizeng Mao
   • Xuehui Liu
   • Debao Li

   Original Paper 06 November 2013 Pages: 1229 - 1238

   

10. Bacteria isolated from soils of the western Amazon and from rehabilitated bauxite-mining areas have potential as plant growth promoters

    • Silvia Maria de Oliveira-Longatti
    • Leandro Marciano Marra
    • Fatima Maria de Souza Moreira

    Original Paper 06 November 2013 Pages: 1239 - 1250

    

11. Involvement of outer membrane proteins and peroxide-sensor genes in Burkholderia cepacia resistance to isothiazolone

    • Gang Zhou
    • Qing-shan Shi
    • Yi-ben Chen

    Original Paper 06 November 2013 Pages: 1251 - 1260

    

12. Purification an α-galactosidase from Coriolus versicolor with acid-resistant and good degradation ability on raffinose family oligosaccharides

    • Fang Du
    • Qin Liu
    • TziBin Ng

    Original Paper 06 November 2013 Pages: 1261 - 1267

    

13. Exploring extra-cellular proteins in methicillin susceptible and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    • Shymaa Enany
    • Yutaka Yoshida
    • Tadashi Yamamoto

    Original Paper 09 November 2013 Pages: 1269 - 1283

    

14. Influence of temperature, pH and metal ions on guaiacol oxidation of purified laccase from Leptographium qinlingensis

    • Xia Hu
    • Chunyan Wang
    • Hui Chen

    Original Paper 09 November 2013 Pages: 1285 - 1290

    

15. Composition and variation of sediment bacterial and nirS-harboring bacterial communities at representative sites of the Bohai Gulf coastal zone, China

    • Xiangyu Guan
    • Lingling Zhu
    • Ximing Luo

    Original Paper 09 November 2013 Pages: 1291 - 1300

    

16. Lindane degradation by Candida VITJzN04, a newly isolated yeast strain from contaminated soil: kinetic study, enzyme analysis and biodegradation pathway

    • Jaseetha Abdul Salam
    • Nilanjana Das

    Original Paper 12 November 2013 Pages: 1301 - 1313

    

17. Cold, pH and salt tolerant Penicillium spp. inhabit the high altitude soils in Himalaya, India

    • Kusum Dhakar
    • Avinash Sharma
    • Anita Pandey

    Original Paper 14 November 2013 Pages: 1315 - 1324

    

18. Antidiatom activity of marine bacteria associated with sponges from San Juan Island, Washington

    • Cuili Jin
    • Xiaying Xin
    • Xiaojian Zhou

    Original Paper 15 November 2013 Pages: 1325 - 1334

    

19. Vertical distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in the hyporheic zone of a eutrophic river in North China

    • Zhixin Wang
    • Ziyuan Wang
    • Yuansheng Pei

    Original Paper 16 November 2013 Pages: 1335 - 1346

    

20. Cloning and characterization of a new manganese superoxide dismutase from deep-sea thermophile Geobacillus sp. EPT3

    • Yanbing Zhu
    • Guohong Wang
    • Huinong Cai

    Original Paper 17 November 2013 Pages: 1347 - 1357

    

21. Biosynthesis of 1,3-propanediol from recombinant E. coli by optimization process using pure and crude glycerol as a sole carbon source under two-phase fermentation system

    • Rosarin Rujananon
    • Poonsuk Prasertsan
    • Amornrat Phongdara

    Original Paper 19 November 2013 Pages: 1359 - 1368

    

22. Enhancement of natamycin production on Streptomyces gilvosporeus by chromosomal integration of the Vitreoscilla hemoglobin gene (vgb)

    • Shaohua Wang
    • Fei Liu
    • Peixue Ling

    Original Paper 23 November 2013 Pages: 1369 - 1376

    

23. Isolation and identification of a new intracellular antimicrobial peptide produced by Paenibacillus alvei AN5

    • Bassam Alkotaini
    • Nurina Anuar
    • Asmahani Azira Abdu Sani

    Original Paper 24 November 2013 Pages: 1377 - 1385

    

24. Ecophysiological properties of cultivable heterotrophic bacteria and yeasts dominating in phytocenoses of Galindez Island, maritime Antarctica

    • Evgenia Vasileva-Tonkova
    • Victoria Romanovskaya
    • Oleksandr Tashyrev

    Original Paper 27 November 2013 Pages: 1387 - 1398

    

25. Fusaric acid accelerates the senescence of leaf in banana when infected by Fusarium

    • Xian Dong
    • Yinfeng Xiong
    • Shiwei Guo

    Original Paper 27 November 2013 Pages: 1399 - 1408

    

26. A feeding strategy for incorporation of canola derived medium-chain-length monomers into the PHA produced by wild-type Cupriavidus necator

    • Arthi Rathinasabapathy
    • Bruce A. Ramsay
    • Fermín Pérez-Guevara

    Original Paper 28 November 2013 Pages: 1409 - 1416

    

27. Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. sichuansis strain MC28 produces a novel crystal protein with activity against Culex quinquefasciatus larvae

    • Peng Guan
    • Xiaojuan Dai
    • Aiping Zheng

    Short Communication 02 November 2013 Pages: 1417 - 1421

    

28. Enterococcus hirae: a zoonotic microorganism in human umbilical cord blood

    • Vincenzo Savini
    • Tiziana Bonfini
    • Giovanni Gherardi

    Short Communication 06 November 2013 Pages: 1423 - 1426

    

29. First detection of OXA-24 carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Bulgaria

    • Bozhana Todorova
    • Tzvetan Velinov
    • Todor Kantardjiev

    Short Communication 28 November 2013 Pages: 1427 - 1430

    

30. Erratum to: Production of 3-nitropropionic acid by endophytic fungus Phomopsis longicolla isolated from Trichilia elegans A. JUSS ssp. elegans and evaluation of biological activity

    • Andressa Caroline Flores
    • João Alencar Pamphile
    • Edmar Clemente

    Erratum 14 January 2014 Pages: 1431 - 1431

31. Erratum to: Halotolerant, alkaliphilic urease-producing bacteria from different climate zones and their application for biocementation of sand

    • Viktor Stabnikov
    • Jian Chu
    • Yishan Li

    Erratum 07 February 2014 Pages: 1433 - 1433

32. Erratum to: Effect of citrus lemon oil on growth and adherence of Streptococcus mutans

    • Ying Liu
    • Xiangyu Zhang
    • Maoding Guo

    Erratum 07 February 2014 Pages: 1435 - 1435