Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1648	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1649	Conferences: Unrestrained Proliferation
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1651	Recognition of merit
	Y. K. Gupta
1651	Admission to Ph D
	M. Selvaraj
1652	Current Science
	Rajinder Singh
1652	Save O3ur sky
	Narottam Sahoo
1654	Indian academics on sale
	S. C. Dutta Roy
1654	Effects of chewing paan
	Chitta R. Choudhury, Ashoka D. Chowdhury, A. Tanaka and A. F. Markus
1655	Growth of biotechnology
	S. K. Banerjee
1655	Sacred groves of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka
	M. J. Bhandary and K. R. Chandrashekar

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NEWS

1657	Coal science and technology
	B. D. Singh, K. N. Singh and B. K. Misra
1661	Rajasaurus narmadensis – A new Indian dinosaur
	D. K. Bhatt

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RESEARCH NEWS

1662	From neutrons to neutrinos: On the trail of solar fusion and terrestrial fission
	D. Indumathi

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OPINION

1664	Digital and information divides: Initiatives for change
	Kailash N. Khattri

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1666	Vivipary, a rare and evolutionarily important phenomenon in a rare homosporous fern Grammitis medialis from the Western Ghats, South India
	V. Irudayaraj, V. S. Manickam and M. Johnson
1668	A rare root parasitic plant (Sapria himalayana Griffith.) in Namdapha National Park, northeastern India
	D. Adhikari, A. Arunachalam, M. Majumder, R. Sarmah and M. L. Khan
1670	Neurospora in full bloom
	K. Rashmi, J. Naveena Lavanya Latha, T. Naga Sowjanya, P. Kiranmayi, M. Venugopal Rao, C. P. S. Menon and P. Maruthi Mohan
1672	Colonization of cruciferous plants by Piriformospora indica
	Rina Kumari, Hari Kishan, Y. K. Bhoon and Ajit Varma
1674	Larval case renovation – a unique behaviour in bagworm moth, Eumeta crameri Westwood
	Arvind Agrawal and Atanu Kumar Pati

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1679	From the archives

GENERAL ARTICLE

1680	Theocracy, history and historiography: An exploration in professional ethics
	S. R. H. Hoole and D. Hoole

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REVIEW ARTICLES

1685	Applications of microwaves in biological sciences
	Ipsita Roy and Munishwar Nath Gupta
1693	Antifungals from fluorescent pseudomonads: Biosynthesis and regulation
	Deepti Dwivedi and B. N. Johri
1704	Acclimatization of tissue-cultured plants
	B. N. Hazarika

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

1713	Droughts of the Indian summer monsoon: Role of clouds over the Indian Ocean
	Sulochana Gadgil, P. N. Vinayachandran and P. A. Francis

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SPECIAL SECTION: NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

1720	Sonochemistry and its application to nanochemistry
	Aharon Gedanken
1723	Nonequilibrium processes for generating silicon nanostructures in single crystalline silicon
	P. Sen and J. Akhtar
1730	Nanophase materials by hydrothermal, microwave-hydrothermal and microwave-solvothermal methods
	Sridhar Komarneni
1735	Phase transfer protocols in nanoparticle synthesis
	Murali Sastry
1746	Nanotechnology, a stimulus for innovation
	W. M. Tolles and B. B. Rath
1760	From colloids to nanotechnology: Investigations on magic nuclearity palladium nanocrystals
	P. John Thomas and G. U. Kulkarni

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1767	Genetic transformation of Hevea brasiliensis with the gene coding for superoxide dismutase with FMV 34S promoter
	S. Sobha, S. Sushamakumari, I. Thanseem, P. Kumari Jayasree, K. Rekha, R. Jayashree, R. G. Kala, M. P. Asokan, M. R. Sethuraj, A. M. Dandekar and A. Thulaseedharan
1774	Comparison of direct binding polymerase chain reaction with recombinant coat protein antibody based dot-blot immunobinding assay and immunocapture–reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction for the detection of sugarcane streak mosaic virus causing mosaic disease of sugarcane in India
	M. Hema, H. S. Savithri and P. Sreenivasulu
1777	Leaf area index retrieval using IRS LISS-III sensor data and validation of MODIS LAI product over Madhya Pradesh
	M. R. Pandya, K. N. Chaudhari, R. P. Singh, V. K. Sehgal, G. D. Bairagi, R. Sharma and V. K. Dadhwal
1782	Molecular diagnosis and induced systemic protection against rhizome rot disease of ginger caused by Pythium aphanidermatum
	R. Ghosh and R. P. Purkayastha
1787	Coral bleaching 2002 in the Palk Bay, southeast coast of India
	A. K. Kumaraguru, K. Jayakumar and C. M. Ramakritinan
1793	Preliminary observations from a trench near Chandigarh, NW Himalaya and their bearing on active faulting
	Javed N. Malik, Takashi Nakata, George Philip and N. S. Virdi

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BOOK REVIEWS

1799	Monograph on Radioactivity of the Environment
	reviewed by A. R. Sundararajan
1799	Sustainability and Management of Aquaculture and Fisheries
	reviewed by T. J. Pandian
1800	Geodynamics of the Lithosphere
	reviewed by C. P. Rajendran

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PERSONAL NEWS

1802	John F. Eisenberg
	Charles Santiapillai

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1803	Acknowledgements

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1806	Institutional members

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i	Author index

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ix	Subject index

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