Recent Advances in Biotechnology

' Overall, this is a most useful book that contains material covering an extremely broad range of topics. ' Chemistry & Industry, 21

• Isolation and Screening of Industrially Important Microorganisms.- Applied and Investigative Uses of Recombinant DNA Techniques for Filamentous Fungal Products.- The Design and Operation of Biotransformation Processes.- Large Scale Separation of Intracellular Enzymes (how not to do it).- Biosensors.- Foaming and Its Control in Bioprocesses.- Scale-up in Biotechnology.- Bioreactors.- Applications of Plant Biotechnology in Industry and Agriculture.- Molecular Biology of Penicillin and Cephalosporin Biosynthesis: Application of Cloned Genes.- Bioreactors for Animal Cell Cultivation.- Production of (Recombinant) Baculoviruses in Insect-Cell Bioreactors.- Treatment of Industrial Wastewaters by Anaerobic Processes — New Developments.- Impact of Biotechnology on Sugar Industry.- Impacts of Biotechnology on International Competition and Trade: Agricultural and Food Products.- Biotechnological Advances and Developing Countries.- Transformation of Streptococcus thermophilus with Plasmid DNA by Electroporation.- Bacteriophage Lambda Expression Systems for Enhanced Recombinant Protein Production.- Strategies and Tactics for Cloning Genes, Coding for Lipase from Higher Plants.- Determination of the Effective Diffusion Coefficient of Glucose in Calcium Alginate Gel Using the Moment Analysis Technique.- Protein Chemical Methods as Tools in Modern Biotechnology.- Thermophilic Archaebacteria for Biotechnology.- Production of Alternative Fuels: Modeling of Cellulosic Biomass Conversion to Ethanol.- Design and Scale-up of Bioreactors for Dense Suspension Broths.- Carrier Influence for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewaters in Anaerobic Biofilm Fluidized Bed Reactors.- Natural Immobilization and Fluidized Bed Fermentation.- Control of Cell Specific Activities with Industrial ProcessControl Systems.- Fine Chemicals from Plant Cells — An Overview.- New Processes for the Preparation of Peptide Hormones.- Membrane Bioreactors for Animal Cell Culture.- Monoclonal Antibodies as Tools in Early Detection of Plant Pathogens.- Approaches to the Development of Biotechnology for Comprehensive Industrial Wastewater Treatment.- Industrialisation Through Plant Biotechnology: An Assessment of the Opportunities and Constraints in the Case of Turkey.- Response Surface Optimisation: More Results from Fewer Experiments.- Evaluation of Recent Advances in Industrial Applications of Biotechnology.- Control by Nitrogenous Compounds of Bacilysin Production.- Metal-binding Proteins from Kluyveromyces spp..- Isoenzyme Electrophoresis on Maize.- Isolation of L-Methionine Enriched Mutants from the Methylotrophic Yeast Candida Boidinii ICCF26 in a Sulphur Defficient Medium.- Transformation of E. coli by Electroporation and Expression of Lac Z Gene.- Cloning and Expression of Cellulases from Rumen Bacteria in Escherichia coli.- Physiological Aspects of Immobilized Penicillium chrysogenum.- Transference of Solutes Across Microcapsule Membranes.- The Interesterification of Fats By Immobilized Stereospecific Lipase.- Citric Acid Production by Immobilized Aspergillus niger on Starch Hydrolysate Medium.- A Multiphase System for the Production of L-Tryptophan from L-serine and Indole; Studies on Product Separation and Recovery.- Production of Clotting Enzymes by Centaurea calcitrapa L. (Compositae).- Plant Processing by Simultaneous Lactic Acid Fermentation and Ensiling.- Bioconversion of Food Industry Wastes.- Use of Thermophilic Bacteria for Copper Extraction.- Kinetic Analysis of Cephalosporin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus and Cephalosporium acremonium.-Bioconversion of Biogenic and Abiogenic Volatile Fatty Acids into the Corresponding Alcohols by Clostridium acetobutylicum.- Scale-up of Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Reactors.- A Novel Concept for a Competitive Affinity Optical Sensor.- Effect of pH Changes on the Measured RQ of Fermentations.- The Effects of Operating Parameters on Cell Growth and Alkaloid Production in a Novel Plant Cell Membrane Reactor.- In vitro Studies on Neurotoxin in B-N-Oxalyl Diaminopropionic Acid (ODAP) in Cell Cultures of Lathyrus sativus.- Analysis of Radiosensitivity of in vitro Derived Apple.- The Effects of Some Cytokinins on the in vitro Development of Different Expiants of clematis (Clematis x hybrida Jackmanii).- Baby Hamster Kidney Aggregation in Fermentation.- Industrial and Medicai Applications of Microcarrier-Facilitated Mammalian Cell Culture.- Operation of a Fluidized Bed Biofilm Reactor for the Elimination of Dichloromethane (DCM) from Gas and Liquid Phases.- Comparison of Three Anaerobic/Aerobic Fluidized Bed Biofilm Systems to Degrade Chlorophenolic Compounds in Pulp Bleaching Effluents.- The Usage of Various Microorganisms in Waste Water Treatment Containing Copper (II) Ions.- Appendix A: List of References for Risk Assessment and Regulation of Biotechnology.