1. Microbial production of testosterone and testololactone in the culture of Aspergillus terreus

   • Mohammad Ali Faramarzi
   • Mojtaba Tabatabaei Yazdi
   • Abbas Shafiee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 657 - 660

2. Nitrate removal from the effluent of a fertilizer industry using a bioreactor packed with immobilized cells of Pseudomonas stutzeriandComamonas testosteroni

   • Swati L. Zala
   • Jayalexmy Ayyer
   • Anjana J. Desai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 661 - 665

3. Induction and partial characterization of intracellular β from Thermoascus aurantiacus and its application in the synthesis of 6-kestose

   • Petros Katapodis
   • Paul Christakopoulos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 672

4. Influence of source of organics and soil organic matter content on cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation and distributional pattern under different water regimes

   • M.N. Jha
   • A.N. Prasad
   • S.K. Misra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 673 - 677

5. Treatment of simulated wastewater containing toxic amides by immobilized Rhodococcus rhodochrous NHB-2 using a highly compact 5-stage plug flow reactor

   • Duni Chand
   • Harish Kumar
   • Tek Chand bhalla

   OriginalPaper Pages: 679 - 686

6. PCR-based dENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORETICtypification and identification of the microbial consortium present in Kefir grains

   • I-m. Garbers
   • T.J. Britz
   • R.C. Witthuhn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 687 - 693

7. Kinetic study of phenol hydroxylase and catechol 1,2-dioxygenase biosynthesis by Candida tropicalis cells grown on different phenolic substrates

   • Deifilia Ahuatzi-chacón
   • Guadalupe Ordorica-morales
   • Juvencio Galíndez-mayer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 702

8. Diversity and effectiveness of rhizobial strains from Gliricidia sepium native to Reunion Island, Kenya and New Caledonia

   • Mansour Thiao
   • Marc Neyra
   • Didier Lesueur

   OriginalPaper Pages: 703 - 709

9. Molecular cloning and characterization of the gene encoding a fibrinolytic enzyme from Bacillus subtilis Strain A1

   • Yong-kee Jeong
   • Jae Hyun Kim
   • Woo-Hong Joo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 711 - 717

10. Characterization of extremely halophilic Archaea isolated from the Ayvalik Saltern, Turkey

    • Rahel Elevi
    • Parvaneh Assa
    • Aharon Oren

    OriginalPaper Pages: 719 - 725

11. Purification and characterization of β-xylosidase from Streptomycessp. CH7 and its gene sequence analysis

    • P. Pinphanichakarn
    • T. Tangsakul
    • A. Thamchaipenet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 727 - 733

12. Genetic diversity analysis of a world-wide collection of Ascochyta rabiei isolates using sequence tagged microsatellite markers

    • M.P. Barve
    • D.K. Santra
    • V.S. Gupta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 735 - 741

13. Screening of Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine strains for the production of acetic acid

    • Margherita Paraggio
    • Concetta Fiore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 743 - 747

14. Serotyping of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates, their distribution in different Jordanian habitats and pathogenicity in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Fouad Al-momani
    • Maher Obeidat
    • Mamdoh Meqdam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 749 - 753

15. Cobalt interference in iron-uptake could inhibit growth in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    • David Kothamasi
    • Shalini Kothamasi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 755 - 758

16. Rhizosphere bacterial populations of metallophyte plants in heavy metal-contaminated soils from mining areas in semiarid climate

    • Rhizlane Bennisse
    • Marc Labat
    • Abdel-illah Qatibi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 759 - 766

17. Optimization of submerged culture conditions for exopolysaccharide production in Sarcodon aspratus (Berk) S.lto TG-3

    • Ji Hoon Joo
    • Jong Min Lim
    • Jong Won Yun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 767 - 773