IN THIS ISSUE
212 In this issue
EDITORIAL
213 Life, P. Balaram
CORRESPONDENCE
215 Funds for higher education, Y. K. Gupta
215 Future of science in India, M. Periasamy
215 MKU’s initiative in university–industry interaction, C. Srinivasan
216 Impact and imprint of Orissa supercyclone, Rajamani Srinivasan
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NEWS
217 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Inaugural
Address at the Indian Science Congress
218 Aatre succeeds Kalam as DRDO chief
219 Wolf Prize to Gurdev S. Khush n 220 Palaeoseismicity and active tectonics in
north-east India, Harsh Vardhan Singh and Prabir De 220 XIII International Biophysics
Congress, New Delhi, M. Vijayan
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RESEARCH NEWS
221 Aspirin hits a new target, Mehran Arabi n 222
Unravelling the biosynthesis of vitamin C in plants, Rajesh Luthra, Pratibha M. Luthra and
Sushil Kumar
224 Random selections
225 From the archives
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OPINION
226 JAMA, NEJM and
beyond – Journal editing in the new millennium
K. Satyanarayana
SCIENTIFIC
CORRESPONDENCE
228 Rebuilding the ocean floor – Construction
of artificial reefs around the Japanese coast, Dinabandhu Sahoo and Masao Ohno
230 Biological management of patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) wilt caused by Rhizoctonia
solani, R. C. Mishra, R. Singh, S. K. Shahi, H. B. Singh and Anupam Dikshit
232 Auxin modulation of differentiation-specific polypeptides in the protonema cultures of
the wild strain and auxin mutants of Funaria hygrometrica, Sangeeta Kapoor and S.
C. Bhatla
235 Screening chemical hybridizing agents for development of hybrid wheat, Vinay Mahajan,
S. Nagarajan, V. H. Deshpande and R. G. Kelker
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GENERAL ARTICLES
238 Sonoluminescence: When bubbles glow
Sascha Hilgenfeldt and Detlef Lohse
241 Integrating environment, education, and employment for a
sustainable society: An HRD agenda for developing countries
A. Raman, S. Raghu and S. Sreenath
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REVIEW ARTICLE
248 Molecular tools for
characterization of rice blast pathogen (Magnaporthe grisea) population and
molecular marker-assisted breeding for disease resistance
Lavanya Babujee and S. S. Gnanamanickam
RESEARCH ARTICLE
258 Surface complementarity of
buried protein residues
Rahul Banerjee, Subhankar Ray and Dhananjay Bhattacharya
SPECIAL SECTION:
PERSPECTIVES ON OCEAN RESEARCH IN INDIA
268 Ocean research in India:
Perspective from space
P. S. Desai, H. Honne Gowda and K. Kasturirangan
279 Seasonal cycle of sea level
and currents along the coast of India
D. Shankar
289 Ocean biogeochemistry and
atmospheric composition: Significance of the Arabian Sea
S. W. A. Naqvi and D. A. Jayakumar
300 Growth rates of oceanic
manganese nodules: Implications to their genesis, palaeo-earth environment and resource
potential
B. L. K. Somayajulu
309 Monsoon–ocean coupling
Sulochana Gadgil
323 First results from a new
observational system over the Indian seas
K. Premkumar, M. Ravichandran, S. R. Kalsi, Debasis Sengupta and Sulochana Gadgil
RESEARCH
COMMUNICATIONS
331 Kevlar 49 fibres: Thermal expansion coefficients from
high temperature X-ray data
Anjana Jain and Kalyani Vijayan
336 Serum deprivation leads to growth inhibition and protein
tyrosine phosphorylation in Entamoeba histolytica
Sheuli Chaudhuri, Nandini Choudhury and Sanghamitra Raha
338 In vitro propagation of a Himalayan pine P.
wallichiana A. B. Jacks
Dhundy R. Bastola, V. P. Agrawal and Nirmal Joshee
342 Racial divergence in body weight: A study in the four
members of newly evolved nasuta–albomicans complex of Drosophila
B. P. Harini and N. B. Ramachandra
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BOOK REVIEWS
345 Meandering in Medical Physics – A
Personal Account of Hospital Physics, reviewed by P. Raghunathan
345 Imagined Worlds, reviewed by Gangan Prathap
346 Vedic Sarasvati: Evolutionary History of a Lost River of North-western India, reviewed
by A. B. Roy
348 Ore Genesis – A Holistic Approach, reviewed by A. V. Sankaran
350 Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations – With Applications in
Biology and Engineering, P. L. Sachdev
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HISTORICAL NOTES
351 Pieter Zeeman Chair in
Amsterdam and C. V. Raman’s Dutch connections
Rajinder Singh and Falk Riess
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