Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

284	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

285	Universities and Academic Institutions: Competition and Collaboration
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

287	Prokaryotic Survey of India
	Ch. V. Ramana and Ch. Sasikala
287	Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) seeks help
	Tawqir Bashir
288	Prospects of bamboo shoot processing in north-east India
	Gibji Nimachow, J. S. Rawat and Oyi Dai
289	Snow partridge hopes for a safe home in Arunachal Pradesh
	Tanushree Srivastava and Pijush Kumar Dutta
290	Haat Kali sacred grove, Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand
	Harsh Singh, Tariq Husain and Priyanka Agnihotri
291	The two engines that drive science in China
	Fred Y. Ye

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NEWS

292	Young Indian Scientists Colloquium
	P. K. Madhu and A. K. Grover
293	Earth system processes and disaster management
	S. C. Tripathi, Manish Tiwari and R. Sinha

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RESEARCH NEWS

295	Coronal heating by Alfvén waves
	B. N. Dwivedi and A. K. Srivastava

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COMMENTARY

297	Computers and education
	V. Ramanarayanan
299	Technology breakthroughs win 2009 Physics Nobel
	Dwarka N. Bose

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

302	Camptothecin accumulation in Ophiorrhiza rugosa var. prostrata from northern Western Ghats
	G. Gharpure, B. Chavan, U. Lele, A. Hastak, A. Bhave, N. Malpure, R. Vasudeva and A. Patwardhan

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SPECIAL SECTION: BIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS OF VIRUSES

305	Molecular virology and translational research
	G. Padmanaban
306	The 2009 influenza pandemic
	Shahid Jameel
312	The biology and pathogenesis of hepatitis viruses
	Vijay Kumar, Saumitra Das and Shahid Jameel
326	Japanese encephalitis: pathogenesis, prophylactics and therapeutics
	Kallol Dutta, Pundi N. Rangarajan, Sudhanshu Vrati and Anirban Basu
335	HIV/AIDS research in India: past, present and future
	Udaykumar Ranga, Akhil Banerjea, Sekhar Chakrabarti and Debashis Mitra
346	Structure and assembly of Sesbania mosaic virus
	H. S. Savithri and M. R. N. Murthy
352	Rotavirus nonstructural proteins: a structural perspective
	K. Suguna and C. Durga Rao
360	Begomovirus DNA replication and pathogenicity
	Pranjal Yadava, Geetika Suyal and Sunil Kumar Mukherjee
369	Dengue vaccine – current progress and challenges
	S. Swaminathan and N. Khanna
379	Non-segmented negative sense RNA viruses as vectors for vaccine development
	V. V. S. Suryanarayana, Dhrubajyothi Chattopadhyay and M. S. Shaila

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

392	Characteristics of gravity waves in the upper mesosphere region observed by OH airglow imaging
	R. Sikha Pragati, Navin Parihar, Rupesh Ghodpage and G. K. Mukherjee
398	Initial results from AWESOME VLF receivers: set up in low latitude Indian regions under IHY2007/UNBSSI program
	Rajesh Singh, B. Veenadhari, M. B. Cohen, P. Pant, A. K. Singh, A. K. Maurya, P. Vohat and U. S. Inan

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

406	Isotopic fractionation in open systems: application to organic matter decomposition in ocean and land
	R. Ramesh and Arvind Singh
411	Thermal conductivity estimates in the Niger Delta using lithologic data and geophysical well logs
	Idara Akpabio and Joe Ejedawe
417	Comparative assessment of micro-watershed silt load with morphological parameters to evaluate soil conservation strategies
	Praveen G. Saptarshi and Rao Kumar Raghavendra
426	ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase activity in relation to starch accumulation and grain growth in wheat cultivars
	Vaibhav D. Lohot, Poonam Sharma-Natu, Rakesh Pandey and M. C. Ghildiyal

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BOOK REVIEWS

431	Indian Higher Education – Envisioning the Future by Pawan Agarwal
	reviewed by P. Rama Rao
434	The Cognitive Neurosciences, Michael S. Gazzaniga (ed.)
	reviewed by Aditya Murthy
435	Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
	reviewed by Sanjay A. Pai
436	Spiders of India, P. A. Sebastian and K. V. Peter (eds)
	reviewed by Renee M. Borges
437	What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science, Max Brockman (ed.)
	reviewed by Richa Malhotra

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HISTORICAL NOTES

438	Suri Bhagavantam – a biographical note
	M. Krishnamurthi

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ACADEMY NEWS

441	Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows – 2010

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Genetic lineage of the 2009 A(H1N1) influenza virus. This virus received its gene segments from North American avian (blue), Classical swine (orange) and human (purple) viruses, followed by an introduction of genes from the Eurasian swine (green). The gene segments and proteins of the final triple recombinant virus are colour-coded accordingly. See page 306.

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