Volume 13 No. 5 September – October, 2008 ROMANIAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL LETTERS – an international journal – CONTENTS 1.BHUSHAN BHASKARWAR, PRAKASH ITANKAR, ABHAY FULKEEvaluation of antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant Jatropha podagrica (Hook) ……………38732.ANDREEA TICAN, RODICA DIACONESCU, CORINA CERNATESCU, ANCA MOCANU, CORNELIU ONISCU, NICOLETA VORNICU, CRISTINA BIBIREStudy and modeling of the estherification process of m-nitrobenzoic acid with ethanol ……………38783.ATTILA CRISTIAN RATIU, ALEXANDRU AL. ECOVOIU, MARIAN GRAUR, LORAND SAVU, LUCIAN GAVRILATransposition of P{lacW}gammaCop057302 into the germline of Drosophila melanogaster correlates with retaining of the original insertion ……………38894.ENACHE- SOARE SIMONA, STOICA ILEANA, PELINESCU DIANA, CHIFIRIUC CARMEN, NICOARA ANDREI, AND VASSU-DIMOV TATIANAVirulence factors in Candida albicans and Candida parapsilopsis species and minimal inhibitory concentration for fluconazole …………… 38985.EUGENIA TEODOR, GEORGIANA TRUICA, IRINA LUPESCUThe release of l-asparaginase from hydrogel-magnetic nanoparticles ……………39076.SAIM ATES, YONGHAO NI, CELIL ATIK, SAMI IMAMOGLUPretreatment by Ceriporiopsis subvesmispora and Phlebia subserialis of wheat straw and its impact on subsequent soda-AQ and kraft-AQ pulping ……………3914 7.GABRIELA N. TENEA, ALEXANDRINA CALIN, L. GAVRILA, NATALIA CUCUManipulation of root biomass and biosynthetic potential of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. plants by Agrobacterium rhizogenes mediated transformation …………… 39228.ERTAN YILDIRIM, METIN TURAN, MESUDE FIGEN DONMEZMitigation of salt stress in radish (Raphanus Sativus l.) by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria ……………39339.NATALIA ROSOIU, ROXANA NITA, LAURA OLARIU, VERONICA DRUMEA, DIANA MANUELA ENEOriginal bioactive complexes rich in glycosaminoglycans obtained from small fish ……………394410.VOICU, GH. CAMPEANU, M. BIBICU, A. MOHORA, M. NEGOITA, L. CATANA, M. CATANAResearch regarding the setting up of the Processing Directions of Peach New Cultivars and Hybrids ……………395511.LUCIAN GAVRILA, LILIANA BURLIBASA, MARIA DANIELA U?URELU, IRINA RADU, LAURA MONICA MAGDALENA, AUREL ARDELEAN, MARIAN CARABASChromosomal rearrangements in Chironomus sp. as genosensors for monitoring environmental pollution ……………396212.CATALINA LUCA, ADINA MANEA, ADRIAN LUCA, ANCA DINISCHIOTU, MARIETA COSTACHEMolecular phylogeny of the Romanian cyprinids from the Danube River ……………3970 Cover: The Bucharest University Building