1. Recombinant expression, characterization and application of a dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase with diaphorase activity from Bacillus sphaericus

   • Anvarsadat Kianmehr
   • Rahman Mahdizadeh
   • Javad Ansari

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 153

   

2. Shift in microbial group during remediation by enhanced natural attenuation (RENA) of a crude oil-impacted soil: a case study of Ikarama Community, Bayelsa, Nigeria

   • Chioma Blaise Chikere
   • Christopher Chibueze Azubuike
   • Evan Miebaka Fubara

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 152

   

3. Proteomic characterization and bio-informatic analysis of differentially expressed E. coli Nissle 1917 proteins with response to cocoti wine stress

   • Chandrasekhar Kathera
   • Esther Lebonah Dulla
   • Pramodakumari Jasti

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 151

   

4. A modified protocol yields high-quality RNA from highly mucilaginous Dioscorea tubers

   • Paramananda Barman
   • Ashish Kumar Choudhary
   • R. Geeta

   Protocols and Methods Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 150

   

5. Improved activity of β-cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase from Bacillus sp. N-227 via mutagenesis of the conserved residues

   • Hua Wang
   • Wenxi Zhou
   • Chunhong Piao

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 149

   

6. Purification and characterization of a newly serine protease inhibitor from Rhamnus frangula with potential for use as therapeutic drug

   • Abir Ben Bacha
   • Ikram Jemel
   • Imen Ben Abdelmalek

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 148

   

7. Fabrication, optimization, and characterization of noble silver nanoparticles from sugarcane leaf (Saccharum officinarum) extract for antifungal application

   • Manikandan Velu
   • Jeong-Ho Lee
   • Byung-Taek Oh

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 147

   

8. Metabolite analysis of endophytic fungi from cultivars of Zingiber officinale Rosc. identifies myriad of bioactive compounds including tyrosol

   • C. Anisha
   • E. K. Radhakrishnan

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 146

   

9. Optimization of cultivation conditions for biotechnological production of lipid by Rhodotorula kratochvilovae (syn, Rhodosporidium kratochvilovae) SY89 for biodiesel preparation

   • Tamene Milkessa Jiru
   • Marizeth Groenewald
   • Dawit Abate

   Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 145

   

10. Discriminatory power of rbcL barcode locus for authentication of some of United Arab Emirates (UAE) native plants

    • Lina Maloukh
    • Alagappan Kumarappan
    • T. V. Rajya Lakshmi

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 144

    

11. Molecular characterization of indigenous Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated from Kashmir valley

    • A. L. Reyaz
    • L. Gunapriya
    • P. Indra Arulselvi

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 143

    

12. Erratum to: A molecular phylogenetic framework for Bacillus subtilis using genome sequences and its application to Bacillus subtilis subspecies stecoris strain D7XPN1, an isolate from a commercial food-waste degrading bioreactor

    • Joseph Adelskov
    • Bharat K. C. Patel

    Erratum 08 June 2017 Article: 142

13. COD reduction of textile effluent in three-phase fluidized bed bioreactor using Pseudomonas aureofaciens and Escherichia coli

    • Dharmesh H. Sur
    • Mausumi Mukhopadhyay

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 141

    

14. Virulence factors associated with Coagulase Negative Staphylococci isolated from human infections

    • K. R. Soumya
    • Suja Philip
    • E. K. Radhakrishnan

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 140

    

15. Dilute acid pretreatment of sorghum biomass to maximize the hemicellulose hydrolysis with minimized levels of fermentative inhibitors for bioethanol production

    • Narendra Naik Deshavath
    • Mood Mohan
    • Tamal Benarjee

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 139

    

16. Using an artificial neural network to predict the optimal conditions for enzymatic hydrolysis of apple pomace

    • Repson Gama
    • J. Susan Van Dyk
    • Brett I. Pletschke

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 138

    

17. Identification of siderophore producing and cynogenic fluorescent Pseudomonas and a simple confrontation assay to identify potential bio-control agent for collar rot of chickpea

    • Anil S. Kotasthane
    • Toshy Agrawal
    • U. S. Singh

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 137

    

18. Purification, characterization and retting of Crotolaria juncea fibres by an alkaline pectin lyase from Fusarium oxysporum MTCC 1755

    • S. Yadav
    • S. K. Maurya
    • D. Yadav

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 136

    

19. Solid-state fermentation for production of a bioherbicide from Diaporthe sp. and its formulation to enhance the efficacy

    • Bruna de Oliveira Bastos
    • Gabriel Antônio Deobald
    • Marcio A. Mazutti

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 135

    

20. Antioxidant properties and polyphenolic content in terrestrial cyanobacteria

    • Dhananjaya P. Singh
    • Ratna Prabha
    • Mahesh Yandigeri

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 134

    

21. Ginger extract as green biocide to control microbial corrosion of mild steel

    • Jayaraman Narenkumar
    • Punniyakotti Parthipan
    • Aruliah Rajasekar

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 133

    

22. Cu-resistant Kocuria sp. CRB15: a potential PGPR isolated from the dry tailing of Rakha copper mine

    • Arti Hansda
    • Vipin Kumar
    • Anshumali

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 132

    

23. Antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of Garcinia indica fruit rind via monoaminergic pathway

    • Isha Dhamija
    • Milind Parle
    • Sandeep Kumar

    Original Article Open access 08 June 2017 Article: 131

    

24. Species specific PCR based detection of Escherichia coli from Indian foods

    • Lipika Pansare Godambe
    • Jayant Bandekar
    • Ravindranath Shashidhar

    Original Article Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 130

25. Development of PR genes panel for screening aphid-tolerant cultivars in Brassica juncea

    • R. Sandeep Raj
    • Sonal V. Thakur
    • Snehal B. Bagatharia

    Original Article Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 129

    

26. High-fidelity PCR enzyme with DNA-binding domain facilitates de novo gene synthesis

    • A. S. Dolgova
    • O. A. Stukolova

    Short Reports Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 128

    

27. Statistical investigation of extraction parameters of keratin from chicken feather using Design-Expert

    • Nuruldiyanah Binti Kamarudin
    • Swati Sharma
    • Ritu Gupta

    Original Article Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 127

    

28. Toxicity assessment of magnetosomes in different models

    • T. Revathy
    • M. A. Jayasri
    • K. Suthindhiran

    Original Article Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 126

    

29. A comparative study reveals the higher resolution of RAPD over ARDRA for analyzing diversity of Nostoc strains

    • Hillol Chakdar
    • Sunil Pabbi

    Original Article Open access 01 June 2017 Article: 125

    

30. In vitro regeneration of Drosera burmannii Vahl.: a carnivorous plant of north-east India

    • J. Sureni Yanthan
    • Mechuselie Kehie
    • Pramod Tandon

    Short Reports Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 124

    

31. Biosorption characteristic of Alcaligenes sp. BAPb.1 for removal of lead(II) from aqueous solution

    • Yu Jin
    • Sumei Yu
    • Juanjuan Qu

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 123

    

32. Production, purification and biochemical characterization of an exo-polygalacturonase from Aspergillus niger MTCC 478 suitable for clarification of orange juice

    • Gautam Anand
    • Sangeeta Yadav
    • Dinesh Yadav

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 122

    

33. Iron acquisition in maize (Zea mays L.) using Pseudomonas siderophore

    • Stuti Sah
    • Nahar Singh
    • Rajni Singh

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 121

    

34. Analysis of toxic, antidiabetic and antioxidant potential of Bambusa balcooa Roxb. leaf extracts in alloxan-induced diabetic rats

    • Arvind Kumar Goyal
    • Sushil Kumar Middha
    • Arnab Sen

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 120

    

35. Technical insight on the requirements for CO₂-saturated growth of microalgae in photobioreactors

    • Yuvraj
    • Padmini Padmanabhan

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 119

    

36. Hot springs of Indian Himalayas: potential sources of microbial diversity and thermostable hydrolytic enzymes

    • Harmesh Sahay
    • Ajar Nath Yadav
    • Anil Kumar Saxena

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 118

    

37. Optimization of rhamnolipid production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa OG1 using waste frying oil and chicken feather peptone

    • Murat Ozdal
    • Sumeyra Gurkok
    • Ozlem Gur Ozdal

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 117

    

38. Enzyme-mediated biodegradation of long-chain n-alkanes (C₃₂ and C₄₀) by thermophilic bacteria

    • Punniyakotti Elumalai
    • Punniyakotti Parthipan
    • Aruliah Rajasekar

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 116

    

39. Endophytic Nocardiopsis sp. from Zingiber officinale with both antiphytopathogenic mechanisms and antibiofilm activity against clinical isolates

    • Rohini Sabu
    • K. R. Soumya
    • E. K. Radhakrishnan

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 115

    

40. Isolation, characterization and genetic diversity of NBS-LRR class disease-resistant gene analogs in multiple virus resistant line of chilli (Capsicum annuum L.)

    • P. Naresh
    • M. Krishna Reddy
    • K. Madhavi Reddy

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 114

    

41. Biodegradation of α-endosulfan via hydrolysis pathway by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia OG2

    • Murat Ozdal
    • Ozlem Gur Ozdal
    • Esabi Basaran Kurbanoglu

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 113

    

42. Molecular and functional characterization of myxobacteria isolated from soil in India

    • Shiv Kumar
    • Arun Kumar Yadav
    • Ramandeep Kaur

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 112

    

43. Properties, environmental fate and biodegradation of carbazole

    • Lateef B. Salam
    • Mathew O. Ilori
    • Olukayode O. Amund

    Review Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 111

    

44. Fungal pretreatment of sweet sorghum bagasse with supplements: improvement in lignin degradation, selectivity and enzymatic saccharification

    • Vartika Mishra
    • Asim K. Jana
    • Antriksh Gupta

    Original Article Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 110

    

45. Endophytic fungal assemblage in Achyranthes aspera Linn. revealed by internal transcribed spacer region of nuclear ribosomal RNA genes

    • Reshma John
    • Linu Mathew

    Short Reports Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 109

    

46. Cost-effective screening and isolation of xylano-cellulolytic positive microbes from termite gut and termitarium

    • Libin Mathew Varghese
    • Sharad Agrawal
    • Ritu Mahajan

    Short Reports Open access 31 May 2017 Article: 108

    

47. Cytomorphological and nitrogen metabolic enzyme analysis of psychrophilic and mesophilic Nostoc sp.: a comparative outlook

    • Bhuvaneshwari Thangaraj
    • Diana Princey Rajasekar
    • Prabaharan Dharmar

    Original Article Open access 30 May 2017 Article: 107

    

48. A comparative assessment of morphological and molecular diversity among Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw. accessions in India

    • Jyothi Ramesh Jain
    • Bibechana Timsina
    • Shiragambi Hanumantagouda Manohar

    Original Article Open access 30 May 2017 Article: 106

    

49. Synergistic effect of Chryseobacterium gleum sp. SUK with ACC deaminase activity in alleviation of salt stress and plant growth promotion in Triticum aestivum L.

    • Komal K. Bhise
    • Prashant K. Bhagwat
    • Padma Babulal Dandge

    Original Article Open access 30 May 2017 Article: 105

    

50. Biosorption and equilibrium isotherms study of cadmium removal by Nostoc muscorum Meg 1: morphological, physiological and biochemical alterations

    • Rabbul Ibne A. Ahad
    • Smita Goswami
    • Mayashree B. Syiem

    Original Article Open access 30 May 2017 Article: 104