IN THIS ISSUE

• 1283 In this issue

• 1285 Editorial: History in Science

• 1287 Funding basic research, V. D. R. Nathan

• 1287 Regulation and control of groundwater management and development, V. P. Upadhyay

• 1288 ‘Terminator’ transgenics, C. R. Bhatia

• 1289 The terminator: Saga continues, K. P. Gopinathan

• 1290 The work of the Fields medalists: 1998, C. S. Rajan, Rajendra Bhatia, T. R. Ramadas and Nimish A. Shah

• 1296 India signs Ocean Charter

• 1296 Protein folding intermediates – Are we seeing too many of them, Anil K. Lala

• 1297 Cambrian life explosion in fray: Evidence from more than 1 b.y. old animal body fossils and skeletonization event, Rajesh K. Vishwakarma

• 1302 Life history and culture studies of Monostroma oxyspermum (Kutz.) Doty (Monostromataceae, Chlorophyceae) growing in estuarine conditions on the central west coast of India, Geetanjali Deshmukhe, V. K. Dhargalkar and A. G. Untawale

• 1303 A survey of impact and evaluation of water pollution on reservoir fisheries in Kumaun Himalayas, India with special reference to micro-organisms, Rajender K. Sidhu and R. D. Khulke

• 1308 Severe heat wave over Indian subcontinent in 1998, in perspective of global climate, U. S. De and R. K. Mukhopadhyay

• 1312 Novel enzyme-based detergents: An Indian perspective C. Ganesh Kumar, R. K. Malik and M. P. Tiwari

• 1319 The terminator technology for seed production and protection: Why and how? P. K. Gupta

• 1323 The Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Orissa: An urgent call for an intensive and integrated conservation programme Bivash Pandav, B. C. Choudhury and Kartik Shanker

• 1328 Non-equilibrium atomic dynamics in solid K. R. Rao

• 1338 Oxidative stress-induced apoptosis – An overview Rajeev Goel and K. L. Khanduja

• 1346 Chemical regulation of DNA triplex properties: Nucleobase and backbone modified novel DNA analogues as structural probes K. N. Ganesh

• 1355 Dependence of vortex breakdown on angular momentum parameters in draft tube flow C. L. Sharma, S. Soundranayagam, Somkrishan and T. S. Mukund

• 1364 Mineralogical and geochemical characters of surface sediments from the central Indian basin Ranadip Banerjee

• 1372 Probing the solar plasma through ratio–ratio diagnostic technique – Ne V emission lines A. Mohan and B. N. Dwivedi

• 1374 Thermodynamic model of global warming K. K. P. Srivastava

• 1381 A thin polystyrene air bubble Arun Chattopadhyay

• 1383 Synthesis and anticancer activity of new derivatives of podophyllotoxin Cui Ying-jie and Tian Xuan

• 1386 Knowledge, attitude, beliefs and practices (KABP) study related to malaria and intervention strategies in ethnic tribals of Mandla (Madhya Pradesh) Neeru Singh, M. P. Singh, Ajay Saxena, V. P. Sharma and N. L. Kalra

• 1390 Study of prevalence of hypothyroidism in women of reproductive age in Meghalaya, North-Eastern India I. J. Kharkongor and B. B. P. Gupta

• 1393 Microbial antagonism to Neovossia indica, causing Karnal bunt of wheat G. A. M. Amer, D. V. Singh, Rashmi Aggarwal and Prem Dureja

• 1396 Chemical stimulation of germination and membrane fluidity change in secondarily dormant cucumber seeds Y. Sreenivasulu and Dilip Amritphale

• 1399 Canopy effect on the dry matter allocation in different components of evergreen and non-evergreen forb species of Kumaun Himalaya Poonam Mehrotra, Pawan Mehrotra and Y. S. Rawat

• 1403 Evaluation of tissues of Indian major carps for development of cell lines by explant method M. A. Joseph, R. K. Sushmitha, C. V. Mohan and K. M. Shankar

• 1406 A test of simple models of population growth using data from very small populations of Drosophila melanogaster V. Sheeba and Amitabh Joshi

• 1410 Role of impurities in gypsum-bassanite phase transition: A comparative Raman study P. S. R. Prasad, N. Ravikumar, A. S. R. Krishnamurthy and L. P. Sarma

• 1415 India – 2020: A Vision for the New Millenium, reviewed by Yash Pal 

• 1417 The International Visibility of Danish and Scandinavian Research 1988–96, reviewed by Subbiah Arunachalam

• 1417 The Book of Indian Trees, reviewed by H. Y. Mohan Ram
  
• 1419 Mountains of the World: A Global Priority, reviewed by K. S. Valdiya