Volume 12 No. 4 July – August, 2007 ROMANIAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LETTERS – an international journal – CONTENTS 1.REZSO THIESZ, ADALBERT BALOG, LÁSZLÓ FERENCZ and JÚLIA ALBERTThe effects of plant extracts on apple scab (Venturia inaequalis Cooke) under laboratory conditions ……………32252.ANCA MOCANU, SILVIA CURTEANU, CORINA CERNATESCU ADINA DUMITRASCU, CORNELIU ONISCUNeural network based modeling of N1-[a-(2-chloro-4-sulphonamido- phenoxy)]propionyl-N2-(2,4-dinitro benzylidene) hydrazone synthesis ……………32333.JOSEPHINE PUNITHA, M. MICHAEL BABU, G. IMMANUELDeveloping feed for the culture of brine shrimp Artemia franciscana using marine algae as major dietary source …………… 32424.MIHAELA LAZAROAIEThe tolerance of gram-negative bacterial strain to saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons …………… 32565.ELENA FOLESCU, ANCA-IRINA GALACTION, DAN CASCAVALOptimization of mixing in stirred bioreactors 3. Comparative analysis of shear promoted by the radial impellers for anaerobic simulated broths ……………32646.MARIJA VUKAŠINOVIC, VESNA KALJEVIC, A. ŽARKOVIC, S. OBRADOVIC, JOVANKA LEVICAInfluence of Concentration of Manganese in Food and Water on Their Representation in Tissues of Bullocks in Fattening Stage ……………32757.H. ALBU, AIDA UZUNUChemical composition of carotenoprotein from Penaeus sp. ……………32808.OBRADOVIC S., VUKAŠINOVIC M., LEVIC J.Effect of dietary phytase supplementation on Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) productivity and nutritional properties of feed ……………3284 9.POPA NICOLAE CIPRIAN, CÂMPEANU GHEORGHE, TAMBA-BEREHOIU RADIANA, POPESCU STELA, STAN VASILICA, IANCU ALEXANDRUVisco-elastic Characteristics Variation in Biscuits Dough, as a Result of the Simultaneous Amelioration with Conditioners containing Cystein and Proteases ……………3291 Cover: The Bucharest University Building