Papers accepted for next issue of August 15th, 2005

Riverina high school student's views of biotechnology
Cavanagh, H.M.A., School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Hood, J.R., School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Wilkinson, J.M., School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia.
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Wild ornamental germplasm exploration and domestication based on biotechnological approaches. In vitro colchicine treatment to obtain a new cultivar of Scoparia montevidiensis
Escandón, A.S., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Miyajima, I., Centro Tecnológico de Flori, Fruti y Horticultura of Japan International Cooperation Agency in Argentine (JICA-CETEFFHO), INTA Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alderete, M., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hagiwara, J.C., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Facciuto, G., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mata, D., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Soto, S.M., Instituto de Floricultura, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Growth and antibacterial activity of Lentinula edodes in liquid media supplemented with agricultural wastes
Hiroko Hassegawa, R., Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, São Paulo SP, Brasil.
Megumi Kasuya, M.C., Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG, Brasil.
Dantas Vanetti, M.C., Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG, Brasil.
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Effects of temperature on the sorption of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺ from aqueous solution by Caladium bicolor (wild Cocoyam) biomass
Michael Horsfall Jnr, M., Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Spiff, A.I., Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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Continuous citric acid secretion by a high specific pH dependent active transport system in yeast Candida oleophila ATCC 20177
Anastassiadis, S., Democritus University of Thrace, School of Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, Xanthi, Greece.
Rehm, H.J., Institute of Microbiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
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LaNe RAGE: a new tool for genomic DNA flanking sequence determination
Park, D.J., Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Potential application of protease isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PD100
Najafi, M.F., Razi Institute, Mashad, Iran.
Deobagkar, D. The Molecular Biology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Maharashtra, India
Deobagkar, D., The Molecular Biology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Hyper-production of a thermotolerant ß-xylosidase by a deoxy-D-glucose and cycloheximide resistant mutant derivative of Kluyveromyces marxianus PPY 125
Rajoka, M. I., Industrial Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Khan, S., Industrial Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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Chitinase from Enterobacter sp. NRG4: Its purification, characterization and reaction pattern
Dahiya, N., Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Tewari, R., Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Tiwari, R.P., Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Singh Hoondal, G., Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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A legume genomics resource: The chickpea root expressed sequence tag database
Jayashree, B., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.
Buhariwalla, H.K., MS Swaminathan Applied Genomics Lab, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.
Shinde, S., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.
Crouch, J.H., M.S. Swaminathan Applied Genomics Lab, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India.
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Expression of the antibody 14D9 in Nicotiana tabacum hairy roots
Martínez, C., Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Petruccelli, S., CIDCA- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas , Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina.
Giulietti, A.M., Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Alvarez, M. A., Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Peroxidase production from hairy root cultures of red beet (Beta vulgaris)
Thimmaraju, R., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
Bhagyalakshmi, N., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
Kumar, V., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
Venkatachalam, L., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
Sreedhar, R.V., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
Ravishankar, G.A., Plant Cell Biotechnology Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.
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