MICROBES FOR BETTER LIVING

Proceedings of MICON-INTERNATIONAL - 94and

35th Annual Conference of Associationof Microbiologists of India

9-12 November 1994

EditorsR. SankaranK. S. Manja

UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEKHANNOVER

TECHNISCHEINFORMATIONSBIBLIOTHEK

Organised byAssociation of Microbiologists of India

Defence Research and Development OrganisationMinistry of Food Processing Industries

Government of India

PublishersConference Secretariat

MICON-INTERNATIONAL - 94Defence Food Research Laboratory

Mysore - 570 Oil, INDIA

Contents

Foreword (iii)

Preface (v)

Secretary's Report (ix)

1. Agriculture Microbiology

Denitrification Potential in Nitrogen Fixing BacteriaRaju, P.N. 1-6

Serodiagnosis for Plant VirusesPrakash, H.S. '. 7-10

The Role of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides in Symbiosis and PathogenesisShivappa Shetty, K., Tilak, M. and Abdul Wajeed, C.K. 11-18

Biological Control of Rice Blast with Pseudomonas fluorescens 7-14 : AGenetic Analysis for the Role of Antifungal Antibiotic in Disease Control

Valasubramanian, R., Gnanamanickam, S. S. and Chatterjee, A. K. 19-30

Aerobic Biodegradation of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Isomers —its Biochemistry and Genetics

Kunhi, A. A.M. 31-40

Bacterial Degradation of Organochlorinated Pesticides and ChemicalsKahlon, R. S. and Gurvinder Singh 41-50

Microbes—a Goldmine of BiofertilizersBagyaraj, D. J. and Indira, B. N. 51-56

2. Basic Microbiology

Genetic Manipulation of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi for Construction ofIndustrially Useful Microbial Strains, by Methods including Selection,Mutation, Classical and Rare Mating, Protoplast Fusion and Transformation

Dorothy M. Spencer and Spencer, J.F.T. , 57-68

Biodiversity and the Isolation of New Industrially UsefulMicro-organisms from Nature

Spencer, J. F. T. and Dorothy M. Spencer 69-82

Tn5 Mutagenesis in Sphirigomonaspaucimobilis Strain S (ATCC 43388)Degrading a-santonin

Parmekar, N. R. and Mavinkurve, S 83-90 .

Fish ImmunodiagnosticsAlexandra Adams, Kim Thompson, Morris, D. and Farias, C. 91-98

Microbial Steroid Hydroxylatfons with Free and Immobilized CellsChincholkar, S. B 99-106

Molecular Basis of Adaptation to Low Temperature :Bacteria and Yeasts of Antarctica as Model Systems

Shivaji, S 107-116

Genetic Manipulation of LactobacillivsWhSpecial Reference to Probiotic Potential

Prajapati, J. B 117-124

Induction and Regulation of Heat Shock Proteins inCyanobacterium synechococcus Sp. PCC 6301

Hem Dutt Shukla and George Borbely 125-134

Resistance of Fish Bacterial Pathogens to Antibacterial AgentsValerie Inglis 135-142

Microbial Culture Collections—Their Activities and ImportanceSwaranjit Singh 143-152

Mechanisms of Acidogenesis in Aspergillus niger: Status of NitrogenMetabolism

Punekar, A/. S., Meera, G., Subita Sudarshana andSantosh Kumar 153-160

Production of Bacillus thuringiensis Based Bioinsecticide :Influence of Various Nitrogen Sources on Process Economics

Johnson, V., Shah, R. N., Shah, D. N., Patel, K. A. and Mehta, M. H. ... 161-168

Search for Siderophores in Micro-organismsAlain Stintzi and Jean-Marie Meyer 169-176

Chemical Structure and Biological Activities of Bacterial LipopolysaccharidesParamahans V. Salimath 177-186

Genetic Manipulation in Microbes for Protein EngineeringVasanti V. Deshpande 187-196

3. Environmental Microbiology

Polymerase Chain Reaction : Application in Environmental Diagnosis andMonitoring of Microbes in Bioremediation

Bindu Joshi, Mohan, K. S. andSatish K. Walia 197-208

High Rate Biomethanation Process for Energy Generation fromAgricultural and Food Industry Wastes

Krishna Nand 209-218

Effluent Treatment Technologies for 2000 A.D.Bhavanishankar, T. N. 219-226

Fungal Cellwall Modifications and their Use as Biosorbents for MetalsMd. Naseem Aktharand Venkateswerlu, G 227-234

Biogas from Cellulosic Wastes by Solid State FermentationBalasubramanya, R. H., Gangar, H. U. and Khandeparkar, V. G 235-240

An Integrated Biotechnological Approach for Gold ProcessingNatarajan, K. A 241-248

Anaerobic Microbial Processes for Bioremediation of ContaminatedSediments

Jain, M. K, Wu, W. M., Natarajan, M. ft, A/ye, J., Wang, H. andBhatnagar, L 249-256

Immobilized Bacillus coagulans ATSB 118 for ContinuousTreatment of Municipal Sewage in a Packed Bed Reactor

Anbusaravanan, N., George John and Chandrasekaran, M. 257-262

Treatment of Cyanide Laden Wastewater using Biotechnological ProcessShivaraman, N. and Bal, A. S 263-270

Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Detection of Dioxin- DegradingSphinogomonas Sp. Strain RW1 in the Environmental Sample

Indu ShekharThakur and Herbert L. Fredrickson 271-278

Bacterial Degradation of CyanideNagarajan, S., Swaminathan, M. and Sabarathinam, P. L 279-286

Useful Role of Micro-organisms in Marine EnvironmentRanu Gupta 287-294

Microbial Leaching of Metals From Ores—A New PerspectiveAgate, A. D 295-302

Pollution Abatement and Effluent Treatment by MicroalgaeVenkataraman, L. V., Suvarnalatha, G.,Krishnakumari, M. K. and Ravishankar, G. A 303-312

Biodegradation of Forest and Agrowastes in a Social Forestry EcosystemSelvam, K, Palaniswamy, M., Guruswamy, ft and Swaminathan, K 313-322

• Microbial Degradation of Pesticide WastesSwaminathan, J. 323-330

Biotechnology for Material DevelopmentTrivedi, J. P. 331-340

Significance of Vibrio Spp. m SeafoodsKarunasagar, I 341-346

4. Food Microbiology

Incidence of Listeria monocytogenes in the Farming Phase ofTiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon)

Bhaskar, N., Setty, T. M. ft and Raghunath, B. S. ...- 347-354 .

Simple Microbiological Methods for Water Quality Testingand their Field Applications

Manja, K. S. 355-360

Lactic Acid Bacteria as Antibacterials against Foodbome Pathogens andFood Spoilage Organisms

Dave, J. M. and Prajapati, J.B 361-368

Bacteriocin Production by Olive Fermenting Strains of Lactobacillusplantarum

Warner, P. J., Cathcart, D. P., Paschaolin, V. M. F.,Ruiz Barba, J. L and Jimenez Diaz, R 369-378

The Hen's Egg, an Aseptically Packaged Convenience Food Having a FiniteShelf Life

Board, ft G 379-386

Role of Stable Starter Cultures on the Quality of Cheddar CheeseKelmani Chandrakanth, Natarajan, A.M., Sullia, S. B. andPadshetty, N. S 387-394

Mushrooms—Human Nutrition and HealthZakia Bano and Rajarathnam, S 395-400

Lactic Fermentation in the Preservation of Animal ProductsNarasimha Rao, D 401-408

Current Trends and Future Prospects of Microbial Food ColoursRavishankar, G. A. 409^116

Starter and Protective Cultures for Foods in EuropeLothar Leistner 417-424

Space Microbiology—Food Related StudiesVijaya Rao, D 425-440

Use of Microbes in Traditional Foods of South India and their SafetyRathna, K. and Mallikarjun Aradhya, S. 441-450

Technologies to Control Post-harvest Microbial Spoilages in Fresh Fruitsand Vegetables

Mallikarjun Aradhya, S. and Nandini, M. S..., • 451-464

Microbiological, Biochemical and Nutritional Aspects of Chhang—A Traditional Fermented Beverage

Basappa, S. C. and Venkataramu, K. 465-476

5. Industrial Microbiology

A Collagenase and Keratinase Producing StreptomyceteMukhopadhyay, ft P. and Chandra, A. L 477^*82

Microbial Metabolites—Screening and EvaluationNadkarni, S. ft 483-490

Xylans and Xylanases—Present ScenarioChandra, T. S. and Chandra Raj,K. 491-^98

Changing Scenario of Fermentation TechnologyRamana Murthy, M. V. and Sadhukhan, A. K. 499-504

Scale up of Fermentation ProcessesSudhir Vaid 505-514

Potentials for Production and Industrial Utilization of MicrobialPolysaccharides

Shamala, T. ft and Prasad, M. S 515-520

Yeast in India: An Overview of Industry Related ResearchTauro, P., Babita Gupta, Anita Yadavand Bajaj, B 521-532

From Romance to Realism : Biotechnology Comes of AgeVenkat, K. 533-544

Microbial Technology for AquacultureAyyappan, S 545-552

Some Bioengineering Considerations in Solid State FermentationRaghavarao, K. S. M. S. and Karanth, N. G 553-558

Fungal Oil—Future ProspectsMurali, H. S., Manja, K. S. and Sankaran, ft 559-568

. Microbial Technology in SericultureChoudhury, P. C, Das, P. K., Katiyar, ft S., Bhogesha, K., Ghosh, A.,Datta, ft K. and Madhava Rao, A. R 569-576

Microbial Surfactants and Pesticide Residue AbatementKaranth, N. G. K. and Anu Appaiah, K.A. 577-582

Enzyme Activity of Bacteria from Hot SpringsChandi C. Rath and Subramanyam, V. R 583-586

Permeabilized Microbial Cells as an Alternate Source of Enzymes forCatalysis

Bhat, S. G., Gowda, L ft, Nayantara Bhat and Naina, N. S 587-596

Fermentative Production of Organic Acids from Horticultural WastesNeelima Garg, Kalra, S. K. and Tandon, D.K. 597-604

Production of Microbial Surfactants Along withSingle Cell Protein (SCP)/Single Cell Oil (SCO)

Manjeet Singh 605-612

6. Medical Microbiology

Detection of Common Viral Contaminants in Selected Bovine andSimian Cell Cultures

Raghavan, ft and Suvarnalatha, K. 613-618

Genetic Engineering Applications in the Development ofSelected Industrial Enzymes and Therapeutic Proteins

Richard P. Blander 619-628

A Study on BrucellosisNagalotimath, S.J. 629-640

DNA Fingerprinting and RAPD Analyses: Applications in Pathogen Typingand Identification

Ranade, S.A 641-648

Author Index 649-650

Subject Index 651-654