Description:Content: Culture maintenance and productivity / Denis K. Kidby -- The production of alginic acid by azotobacter vinelandii in batch and continuous culture / L. Deavin ... [et al.] -- Xanthan gum from acid whey / Marvin Charles and Mohammed K. Radjai -- Microbial exopolysaccharide synthesis / I.W. Sutherland -- Polysaccharide formation by a methylomonas / Kai T. Tam and R.K. Finn -- Molecular origin of xanthan solution properties / E.R. Morris -- Xanthan gum : molecular conformation and interactions / R. Moorhouse, M.D. Walkinshaw, and S. Arnott -- Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of polysaccharides / John Blackwell -- Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy of polysaccharides / Fred R. Seymour -- Polysaccharide polyelectrolytes / W.M. Pasika -- Some rheological properties of gum solutions / John H. Elliott -- Rheology of xanthan gum solutions / P.J. Whitcomb, B.J. Ek, and C.W. Macosko -- Synergistic xanthan gels / I.C.M. Dea and E.R. Morris -- Xanthan gum : acetolysis as a tool for the elucidation of structure / C.J. Lawson and K.C. Symes -- Variation in xanthomonas campestris NRRL B-1459 : characterization of xanthan products of differing pyruvic acid content / P.A. Sandford ... [et al.] -- Zanflo : a novel bacterial heteropolysaccharide / K.S. Kang, G.T. Veeder and D.D. Richey -- PS-7 : a new bacterial heteropolysaccharide / K.S. Kang and W.H. McNeely -- Applications of xanthan gum in foods and related products / Thomas R. Andrew -- Applications of xanthan gum for enhanced oil recovery / E.I. Sandvik and J.M. Maerker -- Production, properties and application of curdlan / Tokuya Harada -- Dextrans and pullulans : industrially significant [alpha]-D-Glucans / Allene Jeanes -- Extracellular microbial polysaccharides : a critical overview / Jeremy Wells.