Advances in MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY This Page Intentionally Left Blank Advances in MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY Edited by A. H. ROSE School of Biological Sciences Bath University, UK and D. W. TEMPEST Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology University of Sheffield, UK Volume 36 ACADEMIC PRESS Harcourt Brace & Company, Publishers London San Diego New York Boston Sydney Tokyo Toronto ACADEMIC PRESS LIMITED 24-28 Oval Road London NW1 7DX US Edition published by ACADEMIC PRESS INC. San Diego CA 92101 Copyright 0 1994 by ACADEMIC PRESS LIMITED This book is printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved N o part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the publishers A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-12-027736-0 ISSN 0065-291 1 Typeset by J&L Composition Ltd, Filey, North Yorkshire Printed in Great Britain by T.J. Press (Padstow) Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall OBITUARY Anthony H. Rose Tony Rose, who was born in Birmingham on 18 July 1930, died suddenly at a squash club in Bath on 10 June 1993, just a few months before his planned retirement at the end of 1993. Tony’s formal training was completed at Birmingham University where he was awarded a First Class honours degree in Applied Biochemistry (1950) and a PhD in 1954. The title of his thesis was Growth of a yeast and a lactic-acid bacterium in mixed culture. Following Birmingham, Tony worked at the Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, USA (19541955), then the Microbiology Division of Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada (1957-1958), and he spent two years as an Education Officer in the Flying Training Command of the Royal Air Force. On his return from Canada, Tony held teaching appointments at several institutions, Heriot-Watt College (195&1961), King’s College, University of Durham (1961-1963), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1963-1965). In 1968 he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Microbiology at vi ANTHONY H. ROSE the University of Bath, an institution that had only recently evolved out of the Bristol College of Advanced Technology. Over the next quarter of a century, Tony unleashed his boundless energy on four main tasks: teaching and research, publishing, administration and enjoyment! Many generations of undergraduates will no doubt entertain memories of Tony the lecturer, whose clear exposition of microbial physiology was achieved without recourse to notes. If a student failed to grasp some cogent point of a lecture, he or she had access to a classic textbook, Chemical Microbiology which Tony published (Academic Press) in 1965 with subsequent editions in 1968 and 1971. A great number of postgraduate students and post docs will recall also their efforts in the Zymology laboratory, the lunch-time meetings at which their work was discussed and the many rehearsals of papers that they were to present to audiences outside the University. Their efforts, principally on the physiology of yeasts, resulted in the publication of upwards of 100 papers in learned journals. This flow of primary papers was complemented by the publication of more than 60 review articles, again with aspects of yeast physiology being key topics. The publishing facet of Tony’s endeavours began during his time at Heriot-Watt with the publication (1961) of Industrial Microbiology (Butterworths, London). Over the next 30 years, he edited, and often contributed to, 20 books which included an eight-volume series published by Academic Press on Economic Microbiology (1977-1983), a threevolume series o