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Vol.  83,  No. 4,
25 August  2002

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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

347

In this issue


EDITORIAL

349

Environmental politics: The Asian brown cloud
P. Balaram

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

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

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

COMMENTARY

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

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

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

REVIEW ARTICLE

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

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

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

PERSONAL NEWS

514

Suresh Kumar Sinha

R. K. Chopra

ADVERTISEMENTS

516

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

519

National Women Bioscientist Awards: 2002

522

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram

523

National Laboratory Workshop on Multiphoton Confocal Microscopy 21–26 October 2002

524

Refresher Course on Spectroscopy, Chemical Reactions & Biology

525

SPIC Science Foundation

526

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Biophysics

526

Project Positions in Earth Sciences at JNU, New Delhi

527

Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan

527

Required

528

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

528

L. V. Prasad Eye Institute

529

M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur 313 001 (Rajasthan)

529

National Dairy Research Institute

530

Banaras Hindu University

530

Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (ICAR)

531

BIO-INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

531

Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302