Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

347	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

349	Environmental politics: The Asian brown cloud
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

351	Research non-guides
	R. Parthasarathy
351	Health situation in the relief camps of Ahmedabad
	Anand Zachariah, Fredrick Vyas, Jonathan, Sara Bhattacharji, Rakhal Gaitonde, B. Subhashri, V. Hemamalini and R. Sukanya
353	Is mathematics research in India on the decline?
	Subbiah Arunachalam
354	An approach to sustainable food security
	Sushil Kumar
355	Diabetes research in India
	A. Rosalind Marita; reply by Subbiah Arunachalam

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NEWS

356	Regional Engineering Colleges go national
	Nirupa Sen
357	Doctor on wheels
	Nirupa Sen
357	Fusion technology project to get more funds
	P. M. Narayanan
357	Retraction of published claim for observation of superheavy element 118
	K. R. Rao
358	Enhanced Research Fellowships
358	China promotes traditional medicine
	Subbiah Arunachalam
359	Women in physics
	Rohini Godbole, Neelima Gupte and Sumathi Rao
361	Dichotomy between grain surplus and widespread endemic hunger
	M. S. Swaminathan

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RESEARCH NEWS

363	Search for the elusive end-Permian bolide impact: Exotic carbon — fullerene, as a potential tracer
	A. V. Sankaran
365	From the archives

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COMMENTARY

366	The new international seed treaty: Promises and prospects for food security
	Bhagirath Choudhary
370	Random selections

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

371	The sedge Eleocharis dulcis (Burm f.) Henschel (Cyperaceae) traps rice white stem borer Scirpophaga innotata (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae) in Andamans
	H. R. Ranganath, G. Shyam Prasad and Sheeba
372	PCR-fingerprinting of some Trichoderma isolates from two Indian type culture collections – a need for re-identification of these economically important fungi
	J. Latha, Aprajita Verma and Prasun K. Mukherjee
374	Phenolics in elephant dung: a complex zoochoric system
	Suparna Mandal and R. L. Brahmachary

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GENERAL ARTICLES

377	A quest for the moon
	Narendra Bhandari
394	On forecasting the Indian summer monsoon: the intriguing season of 2002
	Sulochana Gadgil, J. Srinivasan, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, K. Krishna Kumar, A. A. Munot and K. Rupa Kumar

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REVIEW ARTICLE

404	Frankia–actinorhizal symbiosis with special reference to host–microsymbiont relationship
	Susamma Verghese and Arvind K. Misra

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Erratum

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SPECIAL SECTION: RECENT ADVANCED IN SILKWORM BIOLOGY

409	Application of genetic principles for improving silk production
	J. Nagaraju
415	Silkworm genomics – progress and prospects
	J. Nagaraju and M. R. Goldsmith
426	Construction of an EST database for Bombyx mori and its applications
	Kazuei Mita, Mitsuoki Morimyo, Kazuhiro Okano, Yoshiko Koike, Junko Nohata, Masataka G. Suzuki and Toru Shimada
432	Perspectives in silkworm (Bombyx mori) transgenesis
	Jean Claude Prudhomme and Pierre Couble
439	Genetic resistance of the silkworm, Bombyx mori to viral diseases
	Hitoshi Watanabe
447	Immune responses against bacterial infection in Bombyx mori and regulation of host gene expression
	Kangayam M. Ponnuvel and Minoru Yamakawa
455	Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus: Molecular biology and biotechnological applications for large-scale synthesis of recombinant proteins
	Asha Acharya, Satyanarayana Sriram, Seema Sehrawat, Masmudur Rahman, Deepak Sehgal and K. P. Gopinathan
466	Sex determination in Bombyx mori
	Fumi Ohbayashi, Masataka G. Suzuki and Toru Shimada

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

472	Dielectric properties of a ferroelectric copolymer Langmuir–Blodgett film
	Mahantappa S. Jogad and Stephen Ducharme
476	Study of organogenesis in vitro from callus tissue of Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch through scanning electron microscopy
	Indrani Chandra and P. Bhanja
480	Influence of calcium channel modulators in capsaicin production by cell suspension cultures of Capsicum frutescens Mill.
	G. Sudha and G. A. Ravishankar
484	Conservation and utilization of Arnebia benthamii (Wall. ex G. Don) Johnston – a high value Himalayan medicinal plant
	Sumit Manjkhola and Uppeandra Dhar
488	Interrelationship between lipid peroxidation, ascorbic acid and superoxide dismutase in coronary artery disease
	Sabari Das, Dinesh Yadav, Rajiv Narang and Nibhriti Das
492	Some geodynamic aspects of Kutch basin and seismicity: An insight from gravity studies
	D. V. Chandrasekhar and D. C. Mishra
498	Negative d13C excursion and anoxia at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the Tethys Sea
	Prosenjit Ghosh, S. K. Bhattacharya, A. D. Shukla, P. N. Shukla, N. Bhandari, G. Parthasarathy and A. C. Kunwar
502	D-InSAR applications for monitoring of geological hazards with special reference to Latur earthquake 1993
	T. J. Majumdar and D. Massonnet

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BOOK REVIEWS

509	Fund and Fundamentals of Mathematics
	reviewed by Shailesh A. Shirali
510	Einstein's Miraculous Year
	reviewed by Sumit Ranjan Das
511	Problems and Methods in Mathematical Physics
	reviewed by Renuka Ravindran
512	The Intelligent Genome – On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection
	reviewed by R. Ramaswamy
513	Chemical and Biological Warfare – A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen
	reviewed by R. V. Swamy

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PERSONAL NEWS

514	Suresh Kumar Sinha
	R. K. Chopra

ADVERTISEMENTS

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524	Refresher Course on Spectroscopy, Chemical Reactions & Biology
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