1. New horizons in biotechnology—An introduction

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 3

2. Effect of ecological factors on conjugal transfer of chromium-resistant plasmid in Escherichia coli isolated from tannery effluent

   • Tuhina Verma
   • P. W. Ramteke
   • S. K. Garg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 20

3. Isolation, characterization, and plasmid pUPI126-mediated indole-3-acetic acid production in Acinetobacter strains from rhizosphere of wheat

   • S. B. Huddedar
   • A. M. Shete
   • B. A. Chopade

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 39

4. Synthetic peptides for study of human immunodeficiency virus infection

   • Monica Dettin
   • Claudia Scarinci
   • Carlo Di Bello

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 47

5. Fermentation diagnosis by multivariate statistical analysis

   • Silvio Bicciato
   • Andrea Bagno
   • Carlo Di Bello

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 62

6. Invertase production on solid-state fermentation by Aspergillus niger strains improved by parasexual recombination

   • Alba Mónica Montiel-González
   • Francisco José Fernández
   • Octavio Loera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

7. Continuous production of extracellular l-glutaminase by ca-alginate-immobilized marine Beauveria bassiana BTMF S-10 in packed-bed reactor

   • Abdulhameed Sabu
   • Sukumaran Rajeev Kumar
   • Muthusamy Chandrasekaran

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 79

8. Selection of human isolates of bifidobacteria for their use as probiotics

   • Mayur R. Acharya
   • Rajiv K. Shah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 98

9. Transformation of textile dyes by white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor

   • Haresh Keharia
   • Datta Madamwar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 108

10. Production of ligninolytic enzymes for dye decolorization by cocultivation of white-rot fungi Pleurotus ostreatus and Phanerochaete chrysosporium under solid-state fermentation

    • Pradeep Verma
    • Datta Madamwar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 118

11. Optimization of media by evolutionary algorithms for production of polyols

    • S. V. Patil
    • V. K. Jayaraman
    • B. D. Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 128

12. Effect of environmental factors and carbohydrate on gellan gum production

    • Basundhara Kanari
    • Ratindra Ram Banik
    • Siddha Nath Upadhyay

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 140

13. A biotechnological process involving filamentous fungi to produce natural crystalline vanillin from maize bran

    • Laurence Lesage-Meessen
    • Anne Lomascolo
    • Marcel Asther

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 153

14. Siderophoregenic Bradyrhizobia boost yield of soybean

    • S. R. Khandelwal
    • A. V. Manwar
    • S. B. Chincholkar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 168

15. Relationship between coffee husk caffeine degradation and respiration of Aspergillus sp. LPBx in solid-state fermentation

    • Débora Brand
    • Ashok Pandey
    • Carlos R. Soccol

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 177

16. Gibberellic acid production by solid-state fermentation in coffee husk

    • Cristina M. M. Machado
    • Carlos R. Soccol
    • Ashok Pandey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 191

17. Effect of pH on simultaneous saccharification and isomerization by glucoamylase and glucose isomerase

    • Abha Mishra
    • Meera Debnath (Das)

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 199

18. Toxicity assessment of nickel using Aspergillus niger and its removal from an industrial effluent

    • P. Rajendran
    • B. Ashokkumar
    • P. Gunasekaran

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 206

19. Remediation of textile effluent using agricultural residues

    • Chandrashekar B. Chandran
    • Dalel Singh
    • Poonam Nigam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 212

20. Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated in India active against Spodoptera litura

    • S. R. Prabagaran
    • S. Jonathan Nimal
    • S. Jayachandran

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 226

21. Heavy metal removal by biosorption using Phanerochaete chrysosporium

    • M. Gopal
    • K. Pakshirajan
    • T. Swaminathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 237

22. Regulation of apoptosis through arachidonate cascade in mammalian cells

    • Kohji Nishimura
    • Hirohumi Tsumagari
    • Kazushige Yokota

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 250

23. Solid-state fermentation for production of phytase by Rhizopus oligosporus

    • Abdulhameed Sabu
    • Saradamma Sarita
    • Carlos Ricardo Soccol

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 260

24. Cloning and sequencing of a phenol hydroxylase gene of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes strain MH1

    • H. Zouari
    • S. Moukha
    • S. Sayadi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 276

25. Potential use of cutinase in enzymatic scouring of cotton fiber cuticle

    • Ofir Degani
    • Shimon Gepstein
    • Carlos G. Dosoretz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 289

26. Engineering cytochrome P-450s

    • Suja Sukumaran
    • William Mark Atkins
    • Rishi Shanker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 302

27. Immobilization of α-amylase from Bacillus circulans GRS 313 on coconut fiber

    • Gargi Dey
    • Varima Nagpal
    • Rintu Banerjee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 313

28. Degradation of textile dyes mediated by plant peroxidases

    • T. S. Shaffiqu
    • J. Jegan Roy
    • T. Emilia Abraham

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 326

29. Influence of media nutrients on synthesis of lignin peroxidase from Aspergillus sp

    • Shamla Ahammed
    • Parukuttyamma Prema

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 336

30. Biodegradation of a medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate in tropical river water

    • Yen-Him Ho
    • Seng-Neon Gan
    • Irene K. P. Tan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 347

31. Modified enzymes for reactions in organic solvents

    • A. B. Salleh
    • M. Basri
    • C. N. A. Razak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 357

32. Screening of thermoacidophilic autotrophic bacteria for covellite solubilization

    • Valentina V. Umrania
    • Jitendra S. Joshi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 366

33. Biosynthetic activity of recombinant Escherichia coli-expressed Pichia etchellsii β-glucosidase II

    • Yukti Bhatia
    • Saroj Mishra
    • Virendra S. Bisaria

    OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 379

34. Optimization of culture parameters for production of podophyllotoxin in suspension culture of Podophyllum hexandrum

    • Saurabh Chattopadhyay
    • A. K. Srivastava
    • V. S. Bisaria

    OriginalPaper Pages: 381 - 393

35. Optimization of fermentation conditions for production of glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin by Amycolatopsis orientalis

    • P. Naga Padma
    • A. Bhaskar Rao
    • Gopal Reddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 395 - 405

36. Culture conditions dictate protease and tannase production in submerged and solid-state cultures of Aspergillus niger Aa-20

    • Cristóbal Noé Aguilar
    • Ernesto Favela-Torres
    • Christopher Augur

    OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 414

37. Mn²⁺ alters peroxidase profiles and lignin degradation by the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus under different nutritional and growth conditions

    • Roni Cohen
    • Limor Persky
    • Yitzhak Hadar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 429

38. Effect of NaCl on in vitro propagation of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.)

    • Archana Mukherjee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 441

39. Anaerobic-anoxic-aerobic sequential degradation of synthetic wastewaters

    • Saswati Chakraborty
    • H. Veeramani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 451

40. Production of α-amylase with Aspergillus oryzae on spent brewing grain by solid substrate fermentation

    • B. Bogar
    • G. Szakacs
    • A. Pandey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 453 - 461

41. Comparison of volatile compound production in fruit body and in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus identified by submerged and solid-state cultures

    • W. Kabbaj
    • S. Breheret
    • S. Roussos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 469

42. Reversible denaturation behavior of immobilized glucose oxidase

    • M. D. Gouda
    • M. S. Thakur
    • N. G. Karanth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 480