1. Authors need to be prudent when assigning names to microbial isolates

   • Erko Stackebrandt
   • Juan A. Mondotte
   • Mike Jetten

   Editorial 28 October 2021 Pages: 5845 - 5848

2. Recent advances in the research of milbemycin biosynthesis and regulation as well as strategies for strain improvement

   • Yu-Si Yan
   • Hai-Yang Xia

   Mini-Review 22 September 2021 Pages: 5849 - 5857

   

3. Microbe-assisted phytoremediation of environmental pollutants and energy recycling in sustainable agriculture

   • Abdul Basit
   • Syed Tanveer Shah
   • Heba I. Mohamed

   Mini-Review 20 September 2021 Pages: 5859 - 5885

   

4. Association of quorum sensing and biofilm formation with Salmonella virulence: story beyond gathering and cross-talk

   • Khokan Rana
   • Soumya Ranjan Nayak
   • Pujarini Dash

   Mini-Review 29 September 2021 Pages: 5887 - 5897

   

5. Persister cells: formation, resuscitation and combative therapies

   • Jack Wainwright
   • Glyn Hobbs
   • Ismini Nakouti

   Mini-Review Open access 05 November 2021 Pages: 5899 - 5906

   

6. Listeria monocytogenes: health risk and a challenge for food processing establishments

   • Jucilene Sena dos Santos
   • Bárbara Biduski
   • Luciana Ruschel dos Santos

   Review 13 October 2021 Pages: 5907 - 5919

   

7. Salt tolerance of halotolerant bacteria from coastal soils and sediments near saltern field of Hainan Island, China

   • Yonggan Chen
   • Zhenhua Zhang
   • Zhen Li

   Original Paper 29 September 2021 Pages: 5921 - 5930

   

8. Hyphomicrobium album sp. nov., isolated from mountain soil and emended description of genus Hyphomicrobium

   • Qing Xu
   • Yuxiao Zhang
   • Gejiao Wang

   Original Paper 28 October 2021 Pages: 5931 - 5936

   

9. Mycoremediation potential of Aspergillus ochraceus NRRL 3174

   • Sezen Bilen Ozyurek
   • Nermin Hande Avcioglu
   • Isil Seyis Bilkay

   Original Paper 01 October 2021 Pages: 5937 - 5950

   

10. Metal biosorption by magnetotactic bacteria isolated from fresh water sediments and characterization of extracted magnetosomes

    • Jamunadevi Jayaraman
    • Santhosh Sigamani
    • Dhandapani Ramamurthy

    Original Paper 16 September 2021 Pages: 5951 - 5962

    

11. Bacterial community changes and their responses to nitrogen addition among different alpine grassland types at the eastern edge of Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    • Xing-e Qi
    • Chen Wang
    • Shijian Xu

    Original Paper 23 September 2021 Pages: 5963 - 5974

    

12. An assessment of the air quality in apple warehouses: new records of Aspergillus europaeus, Aspergillus pulverulentus, Penicillium allii and Penicillium sumatraense as decay agents

    • Marwa Smiri
    • Amina Kheireddine
    • Najla Sadfi-Zouaoui

    Original Paper 17 September 2021 Pages: 5975 - 5992

    

13. Statistical optimisation of polyhydroxyalkanoate production in Bacillus endophyticus using sucrose as sole source of carbon

    • M. Geethu
    • H. Raghu Chandrashekar
    • M. S. Divyashree

    Original Paper Open access 22 September 2021 Pages: 5993 - 6005

    

14. Fermentation profile and microbial diversity of temperate grass silage inoculated with epiphytic microbiota from tropical grasses

    • Siran Wang
    • Junfeng Li
    • Tao Shao

    Original Paper 19 October 2021 Pages: 6007 - 6019

    

15. Luteirhabdus pelagi gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the West Pacific Ocean

    • Wen-Ting Ren
    • Fan-Xu Meng
    • Yue-Hong Wu

    Original Paper Open access 26 October 2021 Pages: 6021 - 6031

    

16. Halomonas salipaludis sp. nov., isolated from a saline-alkali wetland soil

    • Juyuan Xing
    • Qi Gong
    • Jinxing Zhu

    Original Paper 03 November 2021 Pages: 6033 - 6039

    

17. Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium

    • Marisa H. Mayer
    • Mary N. Parenteau
    • Paula V. Welander

    Original Paper Open access 16 September 2021 Pages: 6041 - 6052

    

18. Cohnella cholangitidis sp. nov., a novel species of the genus Cohnella isolated from a clinical specimen in Korea

    • Joon Ki Kim
    • Chi-Hwan Choi
    • Young Sill Choi

    Original Paper Open access 25 September 2021 Pages: 6053 - 6060

    

19. Honey-based trap for Pseudomonas: a sustainable prototype for water disinfection

    • Hemangi Ranade
    • Priya Paliwal
    • Manali Datta

    Original Paper 21 September 2021 Pages: 6061 - 6069

    

20. Microvirga pudoricolor sp. nov., and Microvirga alba sp. nov., isolated from soil in South Korea

    • Hyejin Oh
    • Myung Kyum Kim
    • Sathiyaraj Srinivasan

    Original Paper 16 September 2021 Pages: 6071 - 6077

    

21. Quorum sensing-1 signaling of N-hexanoyl-l-homoserine lactone contributes to virulence in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli

    • Yang Yang
    • Xin Zhang
    • Guoqiang Zhu

    Original Paper 20 September 2021 Pages: 6079 - 6089

    

22. Phytochemical screening and antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of crude extracts of different filamentous fungi

    • Ankita Chakraborty
    • Sayari Majumdar
    • Jayati Bhowal

    Original Paper 05 October 2021 Pages: 6091 - 6108

    

23. Genome of Bifidobacterium longum NCIM 5672 provides insights into its acid-tolerance mechanism and probiotic properties

    • Aravind Sundararaman
    • Kanika Bansal
    • Prakash M. Halami

    Original Paper 22 September 2021 Pages: 6109 - 6118

    

24. Phylogeny of Graphostromatacea with two new species (Biscogniauxia glaucae sp. nov. and Graphostroma guizhouensis sp. nov.) and new record of Camillea broomeana isolated in China

    • Qirui Li
    • Xiaofeng Gong
    • Jichuan Kang

    Original Paper 22 September 2021 Pages: 6119 - 6129

    

25. Ciprofloxacin induced antibiotic resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium mutants and genome analysis

    • Aarti S. Kakatkar
    • Anubrata Das
    • Ravindranath Shashidhar

    Original Paper 28 September 2021 Pages: 6131 - 6142

    

26. Complete genome sequence of Microbulbifer sp. YPW1 from mangrove sediments in Yanpu harbor, China

    • Dingquan Wang
    • Jianxin Wang
    • Wu Qu

    Original Paper 28 September 2021 Pages: 6143 - 6151

    

27. Virulence attitude estimation of Pasteurella multocida isolates in embryonated chicken eggs

    • Azhar G. Shalaby
    • Neveen R. Bakry
    • Azza S. El-Demerdash

    Original Paper 23 September 2021 Pages: 6153 - 6162

    

28. Isolation of actinobacterial endophytes from wheat sprouts as biocontrol agents to control seed pathogenic fungi

    • Shunsheng Deng
    • Yanming Liu
    • Yali Huang

    Original Paper 28 October 2021 Pages: 6163 - 6171

    

29. Diketopiperazine derivative from marine actinomycetes Nocardiopsis sp. SCA30 with antimicrobial activity against MRSA

    • Saket Siddharth
    • Jamuna Bai Aswathanarayan
    • Ravishankar Rai Vittal

    Original Paper 10 October 2021 Pages: 6173 - 6181

    

30. Bioprocess optimization of glutathione production by Saccharomyces boulardii: biochemical characterization of glutathione peroxidase

    • Hossam Badr
    • Ashraf El-Baz
    • Noha Sorour

    Original Paper 27 September 2021 Pages: 6183 - 6196

    

31. Stenotrophomonas nematodicola sp. nov., isolated from Caenorhabditis elegans

    • Xuyang Wei
    • Shengwei Lei
    • Qiuhong Niu

    Original Paper 24 September 2021 Pages: 6197 - 6202

    

32. Structural changes in the gut microbiota community of the black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) in the wintering period

    • Junsong Zhao
    • Yuanjian Wang
    • Huailiang Xu

    Original Paper 24 September 2021 Pages: 6203 - 6214

    

33. Phomopsis liquidambaris reduces ethylene biosynthesis in rice under salt stress via inhibiting the activity of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase

    • M. A. Siddikee
    • M. I. Zereen
    • Chuan-Chao Dai

    Original Paper 05 October 2021 Pages: 6215 - 6229

    

34. Bacterial consortium biotransformation of pentachlorophenol contaminated wastewater

    • Rim Werheni Ammeri
    • Giuseppe Di Rauso Simeone
    • Abdennaceur Hassen

    Original Paper 30 September 2021 Pages: 6231 - 6243

    

35. Muricauda chongwuensis sp. nov., isolated from coastal seawater of China

    • Ming-Xia Chen
    • Xiao-Yu He
    • He-Yang Li

    Original Paper 05 October 2021 Pages: 6245 - 6252

    

36. Biodegradation of low-density polyethylene and polypropylene by microbes isolated from Vaigai River, Madurai, India

    • K. Nanthini Devi
    • P. Raju
    • P. Perumal

    Original Paper 30 September 2021 Pages: 6253 - 6265

    

37. Assessment of probiotic adhesion and inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli and Salmonella adhesion

    • Ya Wang
    • Dan Jia
    • You-quan Li

    Original Paper 28 September 2021 Pages: 6267 - 6274

    

38. Correlation between type IIIA CRISPR–Cas system and SCCmec in Staphylococcus epidermidis

    • Tao Zhu
    • Yanfeng Zhao

    Original Paper 20 October 2021 Pages: 6275 - 6286

    

39. Nesterenkonia sedimenti sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment

    • Fuquan Xie
    • Shengxiang Pei
    • Gaiyun Zhang

    Original Paper 05 October 2021 Pages: 6287 - 6293

    

40. A comprehensive evaluation of single-end sequencing data analyses for environmental microbiome research

    • Meganathan P. Ramakodi

    Original Paper 15 October 2021 Pages: 6295 - 6302

    

41. Truffle species strongly shape their surrounding soil mycobiota in a Pinus armandii forest

    • Dong Liu
    • Mariana Herrera
    • Fuqiang Yu

    Original Paper 15 October 2021 Pages: 6303 - 6314

    

42. Collinsella ihumii sp. nov., a new anaerobic bacterium isolated from human stool

    • Mariem Ben Khedher
    • Fatou Samba Diouf
    • Florence Fenollar

    Short Communication 09 October 2021 Pages: 6315 - 6322

    

43. The value of bacterial metagenomic analysis in post-surgical examination of gallstones

    • T. Ploszaj
    • M. Brauncajs
    • M. Borowiec

    Short Communication Open access 25 September 2021 Pages: 6323 - 6328

    

44. Streptococcal meningitis reveals the presence of residual streptococci and down-regulated aquaporin 4 in the brain

    • Tatsuya Nakayama

    Short Communication 25 September 2021 Pages: 6329 - 6335