Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

408	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

409	Drug Resistant Bacteria and the Global Economy
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

411	‘Impact factor’ and ‘we also ran’ syndrome
	S. C. Lakhotia
411	Carbon credits: today’s new currency mantra
	Sharad Bissa and A. Bohra
412	Revising India’s water policy: need for a process
	T. N. Narasimhan
413	Socio-legal aspects of earthquake prediction
	Arun Bapat
414	Scenario of science Ph Ds produced in India by 12th five-year plan
	S. A. Hasan, S. Khilnani and R. Luthra
415	The history of ‘two cultures’: can we bridge the gulf?
	C. Subba Rao and C. Kavitha
417	Water: an eco-friendly and energy-efficient resource for milling in rural Arunachal Pradesh
	Ashish Paul and Mohamed Latif Khan
418	BSI contribution to floral documentation and conservation
	M. Sanjappa, P. Venu and P. V. Prasanna
419	Urophysa rockii Ulbr., a rare and endangered plant needs urgent conservation
	Du Baoguo and Yang Fengli
420	Some additional aspects of gender asymmetry
	Bhupati Chakrabarti

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NEWS

421	Climate change, REDD and biocultural diversity: consultations and grassroots initiative with indigenous people of Arunachal Pradesh
	Ranjay K. Singh and Igul Padung

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RESEARCH NEWS

423	Climate change: the role of plant physiology
	V. T. Yadugiri
425	Carbones: divalent C(0) compounds
	Dhilon S. Patel and Prasad V. Bharatam

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IN CONVERSATION

427	The Ashtavaidya medical tradition of Kerala
	V. T. Yadugiri

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OPINION

432	What else can we do to enhance the scientific potential of India?
	A. K. Singhvi and Aakanksha Singhvi
433	Losing one million hectare net sown area in India
	K. D. Sharma

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

436	Coalescence can be very recent in exploding populations
	K. B. Athreya
436	Genetic fidelity of long-term micropropagated plantlets of Valeriana wallichii – an endangered medicinal plant
	Priyanka Verma, Priyanka Srivastava, Subhash C. Singh and Archana Mathur

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GENERAL ARTICLES

439	Copenhagen and the ‘BASIC’ countries: some basic differences between the Indian and Chinese emissions
	James Jacob
444	Greening India Mission
	N. H. Ravindranath and I. K. Murthy
450	The subcellular basis of seed priming
	Anuradha Varier, Alice Kuriakose Vari and Malavika Dadlani

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CARTOON

Smile with Science:  Sumanta Barauh

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REVIEW ARTICLE

457	Free energy barriers in protein folding and unfolding reactions
	Santosh Kumar Jha and Jayant B. Udgaonkar

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

476	Decoding coherent information in femtosecond shaped laser pulses
	Indrajit Bhattacharyya, Aveek Dutta, Sumit Ashtekar, Sandeep Kumar Maurya and Debabrata Goswami
485	Fluctuations in productivity and denitrification in the southeastern Arabian Sea during the Late Quaternary
	Pratima M. Kessarkar, V. Purnachandra Rao, S. W. A. Naqvi, Allan R. Chivas and T. Saino
492	Placer chromite along south Maharashtra, central west coast of India
	A. R. Gujar, N. V. Ambre, S. D. Iyer, P. G. Mislankar and V. J. Loveson
500	Evaluation of habitat suitability models for four sympatric ungulate species in Pathri Rao Watershed adopting geo-statistical modelling
	Bilal Habib, Tanweer A. Dar, Jamal A. Khan and S. P. S. Kushwaha

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

507	Binding capacity and root penetration of seven species selected for revegetation of uranium tailings at Jaduguda in Jharkhand, India
	Lal Singh and Prafulla Soni
513	Parallel response between gametophyte and sporophyte for Fusarium wilt resistance in the recombinant inbred lines of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
	D. Ratna Babu and R. L. Ravikumar
518	Some observations on the determination of platinum group elements and gold in black shales
	N. Berdnikov, V. Balaram, A. Cherepanov, D. Avdeev, N. Konovalova and G. Sukharulidze
521	Seismic vulnerability and risk in the Himalayan township of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
	Piyoosh Rautela, Girish Chandra Joshi and Bhupendra Bhaisora

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BOOK REVIEWS

527	Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu: A Tribute on his 150th Birth Anniversary, Nitai Chandra Mandal
	reviewed by D. P. Sen Gupta
528	Knowledge to Policy – Making the Most of Development Research, Fred Carden
	reviewed by R. S. Deshpande

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COVER CAPTION

COVER. Sambar male – displaying his dominance. (Photo: Gobind Sagar Bhardwaaj). See page 500.

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