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TwentyyearshavegonebysinceJackSokatch?rstpublishedhisoutsta- ingTheBiologyofPseudomonasbackin1986.Thiswasfollowedbytwobooks published by the ASM that contained the presentations of the Pseudomonas meetings held in Chicago in 1989 and Trieste in 1991. The earlier volume of these two was edited by Simon Silver, Al Chakrabarty, Barbara Iglewski, and Sam Kaplan, and the later one by Enrica Galli, Simon Silver, and Bernard Witholt. The time was ripe for a series of books on Pseudomonas because of its importance in human and plant pathogenesis, bio?lms, soil and rhizosphere colonization, etc. Efforts were devoted to produce the ?rst three volumes of the series on the biology of Pseudomonas after a meeting with Kluwer staff members in August 2002 during the XI IUMS conference in Paris (France). In less than a year a group of outstanding scientists in the ?eld, after devoting much of their valuable time, managed to complete their chapters for the three volumes of the series. To ensure the high standard of each chapter, renowned scientists participated in the reviewing process. The three books collected part of the "explosion" of new vital information on the genus Pseudomonas.

Contents:

VIRULENCE AND PATHOGENS 1. 'New insights on iron acquisition mechanism in pathogenic Pseudomonas' Isabelle Schalk, UPR - CNRS, Strasbourg, France. 2. 'Clonal variations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa' Burkhard Tummler, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany. 3. 'Pseudomonas aeruginosa phospholipases and phospholipids' Michael Vasil, University of Colorado, Colorado, USA 4. 'In vivo functional genomics of Pseudomonas: PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis' Roger Levesque, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS 5. 'A genome-wide mutant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa' Michael E. Jacobs and Colin Manoil*, University of Washington, Seattle-WA, USA 6. 'Biogenesis & function of type IV pili in Pseudomonas species' Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. PHYSIOLOGY METABOLISM AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 7. 'Evolution of catabolic pathways in Pseudomonas through gene transfer' Jan Roelof van der Meer, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. 8. 'Controlling regiospecific oxidation of aromatics and the degradation of chlorinated aliphatics via active site engineering of toluene monooxygenases' Ayelet Fishman, Ying Tao, Goenul Vardar, Lingyun Rui, and Thomas K. Wood*, University of Connecticut, Storss - CT, USA. 9. 'Aromatic ring hydroxylating dioxygenases' Rebecca Parales* and Sol Resnick, University of California, Davis - CA, USA and The Dow Chemical Company, San Diego - CA, USA. PSEUDOMONAS BACTERIAL COLLECTIONS 10. 'The Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome database' Fiona Brinkman, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada.