1. Biological bleaching of water-soluble coal macromolecules by a basidiomycete strain

   • G. Willmann
   • R. M. Fakoussa

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 95 - 101

2. Effect of feed composition and upflow velocity on aggregate characteristics in anaerobic upflow reactors

   • V. O'Flaherty
   • P. N. L. Lens
   • E. Colleran

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 102 - 107

3. Enhanced mineralization of pentachlorophenol by κ-carrageenan-encapsulated Pseudomonas sp. UG30

   • M. B. Cassidy
   • K. W. Shaw
   • J. T. Trevors

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 108 - 113

4. Enzymatic preparation of d-p -trimethylsilylphenylalanine

   • Y. Tsuji
   • H. Yamanaka
   • A. Tanaka

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 114 - 119

5. Extracellular production of a hybrid β-glucanase from Bacillus by Escherichia coli under different cultivation conditions in shaking cultures and bioreactors

   • G. Miksch
   • R. Neitzel
   • E. Flaschel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 120 - 126

6. Breeding of starch-utilizing and itaconic-acid-producing koji molds by interspecific protoplast fusion between Aspergillus terreus and Aspergillus usamii

   • K. Kirimura
   • T. Sato
   • S. Usami

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 127 - 131

7. Lipid storage compounds in marine bacteria

   • H. M. Alvarez
   • O. H. Pucci
   • A. Steinbüchel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 132 - 139

8. Molecular mass of poly[(R )-3-hydroxybutyric acid] produced in a recombinant Escherichia coli

   • S. Kusaka
   • H. Abe
   • Y. Doi

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 140 - 143

9. Growth-associated synthesis of poly(hydroxybutyric acid) in Methylobacterium rhodesianum as an expression of an internal bottleneck

   • J.-U. Ackermann
   • W. Babel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 144 - 149

10. Degradation of styrene by white-rot fungi

    • A. Braun-Lüllemann
    • A. Majcherczyk
    • A. Hüttermann

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 150 - 155

11. A Pseudomonas putida capable of stereoselective hydrolysis of nitriles

    • R. D. Fallon
    • B. Stieglitz
    • I. Turner Jr.

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 156 - 161

12. Enantioselective reduction of 3,4-methylene-dioxyphenylacetone using Candida famata and Zygosaccharomyces rouxii

    • M. J. Zmijewski
    • J. Vicenzi
    • B. Anderson

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 162 - 166

13. Transformation of indole and quinoline by Desulfobacterium indolicum (DSM 3383)

    • D. Licht
    • S. S. Johansen
    • B. K. Ahring

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 167 - 172

14. d-Methionine preparation from racemic methionines by Proteus vulgaris IAM 12003 with asymmetric degrading activity

    • E. Takahashi
    • M. Furui
    • T. Shibatani

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 173 - 179

15. Manganese uptake and toxicity in magnesium-supplemented and unsupplemented Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • K. J. Blackwell
    • J. M. Tobin
    • S. V. Avery

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 180 - 184

16. Aerobic degradation of olive mill wastewaters

    • J. Benitez
    • J. Beltran-Heredia
    • V. Cercas

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 185 - 188

17. Influence of the starting microbial nucleus type on the anaerobic granulation dynamics

    • R. El-Mamouni
    • R. Leduc
    • S. R. Guiot

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 189 - 194

18. Acknowledgement to Reviewers 1996

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pages: 195 - 198