1. Armadillo leprosy and a failed vaccine

   • H.P. Burchfield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 653 - 668

2. Comparison of pyrene biodegradation by white rot fungi

   • Hong-Gyu Song

   OriginalPaper Pages: 669 - 672

3. Isolation, purification and properties of tannase from Aspergillus niger van Tieghem

   • Shweta Sharma
   • T.K. Bhat
   • R.K. Dawra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 673 - 677

4. Isolation and characterization of Metolachlor-resistant mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • S. Echeverrigaray
   • L.H. Gomes
   • F.C.A. Tavares

   OriginalPaper Pages: 679 - 681

5. Effect of different carbon sources on membrane permeability, membrane fluidity, and fatty acid composition of a psychrotrophic Acinetobacter sp. HH1-1 during growth at low temperatures and after cold shock

   • S.E. Barbaro
   • J.T. Trevors
   • W.E. Inniss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 683 - 692

6. Shigella dysenteriae type 1 carrying LPS biosynthesis genes of Salmonella typhimurium affects both Invasive Plasmid AntigenH (IpaH) secretion and invasion

   • Debabrata Biswas
   • Michael Bagdasarian
   • Ranajit Kumar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 693 - 698

7. Isolation and characterization of a cyanide-utilizing Burkholderia cepacia strain

   • Michael D. Adjei
   • Yoshiyuki Ohta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 699 - 704

8. Degradation of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) by soil streptomycetes

   • A. Manna
   • P. Giri
   • A.K. Paul

   OriginalPaper Pages: 705 - 709

9. Rosmarinic acid production by Lavandula vera MM cell suspension culture: nitrogen effect

   • M. Ilieva
   • A. Pavlov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 711 - 714

10. Autoregulation of soybean–Bradyrhizobium nodule symbiosis is controlled by shoot or/and root factors

    • Mohamed Hemida Abd-Alla

    OriginalPaper Pages: 715 - 722

11. Biodegradation of aspen steryl esters and waxes by two filamentous fungi with or without other carbon sources

    • R. Leone
    • C. Breuil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 723 - 727

12. Biosorption of toxic metal ions by alkali-extracted biomass of a marine cyanobacterium, Phormidium valderianum BDU 30501

    • Rama Rao Karna
    • L. Uma
    • P. Maruthi Mohan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 729 - 732

13. The use of psyllium (isubgol) as an alternative gelling agent for microbial culture media

    • Sanjay Sahay

    OriginalPaper Pages: 733 - 735

14. Continuous malolactic fermentation in red wine using free Oenococcus oeni

    • Sergi Maicas
    • Isabel Pardo
    • Sergi Ferrer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 739

15. Production of rifamycin SV using mutant strains of Amycolatopsis mediterranei MTCC17

    • P.S. Murali Krishna
    • G. Venkateswarlu
    • L. Venkateswar Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 741 - 743

16. Isolation and characterization of chitinase from a marine bacterium Vibrio sp.

    • S.N. Zhou
    • C.Y. Yang
    • Y.C. Lin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 745 - 746

17. Enhanced growth, sporulation and toxin production by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki in oil seed meal extract media containing cystine

    • Dipak Vora
    • Y.I. Shethna

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 749

18. Extracellular production of L-glutaminase by alkalophilic Beauveria bassiana BTMF S10 isolated from marine sediment

    • T.R. Keerthi
    • P.V. Suresh
    • M. Chandrasekaran

    OriginalPaper Pages: 751 - 752

19. Morphological development and gibberellin production by different strains of Gibberella fujikuroi in shake flasks and bioreactor

    • E.M. Escamilla Silva
    • L. Dendooven
    • M. de la Torre Martínez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 753 - 755

20. Author Index

    OriginalPaper Pages: 757 - 762

21. Instructions for Authors

    OriginalPaper Pages: 763 - 767