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Vol. 90  No. 3
10 February  2006


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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

271

In this issue


GUEST EDITORIAL

273

Hottest decade: Early warning or false alarm?
  J. Srinivasan

CORRESPONDENCE

275

Primate polythelia puzzle
 

Minna J. Hsu, Jin-Fu Lin, Tai-Jung Lin and Govindasamy Agoramoorthy

276

Plight of higher education and our helplessness to act
 

Y. K. Gupta

277 Apomixis revisited
 

Sushil Kumar

278 Bt-cotton: Protein expression in leaves is most critical, T. M. Manjunath; Response: Bt-cotton: High toxin level in fruiting parts is most critical for bollworm control, K. R. Kranthi

NEWS

280 Workshop on biodiversity informatics and interlinking of databases
  S. Sreekumar, P. M. Safeer, C. K. Biju, M. Raveendran and P. N. Krishnan
281 India’s competitiveness and preparedness in Science & Technology for the coming decades
  B. K. Anitha

RESEARCH NEWS

284 Material transfer across earth’s core/mantle boundary: Recent perceptions
 

A. V. Sankaran


COMMENTARY

286 Fire of the dragon, roar of the tiger? Opportunities for Indian palaeontology
 

Nigel C. Hughes


SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

288

Climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch) recognizes members of familiar shoals

 

V. V. Binoy and K. John Thomas

289

Sexual anomaly in a marine red alga Polysiphonia unguiformis Boergesen

 

Sonali Jadiye, C. Anilkumar and P. S. N. Rao

291 Fossil aquatic fungi from the Miocene sediments of Mizoram, Northeast India
  R. K. Kar, B. D. Mandaokar and Ratan Kar

GENERAL ARTICLES

293 Empowering the universities – one small step through electronic access to the literature
 

Ajit Kembhavi

296 Patenting scenario in agriculture: Indian perspective
  Rekha Mittal and Gian Singh

REVIEW ARTICLES

301 Solvation dynamics in room temperature ionic liquids: Dynamic Stokes shift studies of fluorescence of dipolar molecules
 

Prasun K. Mandal, Satyen Saha, Rana Karmakar and Anunay Samanta

311 Prostaglandins and enhanced orthodontic tooth movement: In search of the silver bullet
 

Ashima Valiathan and Siddhartha Dhar


SPECIAL SECTION: CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDIA

314 Climate change, sustainable development and India: Global and national concerns
 

Jayant Sathaye, P. R. Shukla and N. H. Ravindranath

326 Greenhouse gas emissions from India: A perspective
  Subodh Sharma, Sumana Bhattacharya and Amit Garg
334 High-resolution climate change scenarios for India for the 21st century
  K. Rupa Kumar, A. K. Sahai, K. Krishna Kumar, S. K. Patwardhan, P. K. Mishra, J. V. Revadekar, K. Kamala and G. B. Pant
346 Climate change impact assessment on hydrology of Indian river basins
  A. K. Gosain, Sandhya Rao and Debajit Basuray
354 Impact of climate change on forests in India
  N. H. Ravindranath, N.V. Joshi, R. Sukumar and A. Saxena
362 Sea level changes along the Indian coast: Observations and projections
  A. S. Unnikrishnan, K. Rupa Kumar, Sharon E. Fernandes, G. S. Michael and S. K. Patwardhan
369 Climate change and malaria in India
  Sumana Bhattacharya, C. Sharma, R. C. Dhiman and A. P. Mitra
376 Assessing vulnerability to climate change: The link between objectives and assessment
  Anand Patwardhan
384 India’s GHG emission scenarios: Aligning development and stabilization paths
  P. R. Shukla

RESEARCH ARTICLES

396 Future rainfall scenario over Orissa with GCM projections by statistical downscaling
 

Subimal Ghosh and P. P. Mujumdar

405 Key airborne pollutants – Impact on human health in Manali, Chennai
  V. Jayanthi and R. Krishnamoorthy
414 Isotopic fractionation of boron in growing corals and its palaeoenvironmental implication
  Y. K. Xiao, P. V. Shirodkar, C. G. Zhang, H. Z. Wei, W. G. Liu and W. J. Zhou

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

421

Post-tsunami oceanographic conditions in southern Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

N. Anilkumar, Y. V. B. Sarma, K. N. Babu, M. Sudhakar and P. C. Pandey

427

Molecular characterization of Trichoderma taxa causing green mould disease in edible mushrooms

 

S. K. Singh, V. P. Sharma, S. R. Sharma, Satish Kumar and Mugdha Tiwari

431

Standardization of environmental conditions for induction and retention of post-transcrip­tional gene silencing using tobacco rattle virus vector

 

P. Nethra, K. N. Nataraja, N. Rama and M. Udayakumar

435

Cation distribution in Cr-spinels from the Sittampundi layered complex and their intra­crystalline thermodynamics

 

Sachinath Mitra, Maibam Bidyananda and Asok Kumar Samanta

440

Sulphur isotopic study on barite mineralization of the Tons valley, Lesser Himalaya, India: Implication for source and formation process

 

Rajesh Sharma, Priti Verma and Randall W. Law

444 Development of a Biogeographical Information System for conservation monitoring of biodiversity
V. N. Neelakandan, C. N. Mohanan and B. Sukumar
450 Developmental mode in white-nosed shrub frog Philautus cf. leucorhinus
K. V. Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra

BOOK REVIEWS

455

Manual of Clinical Methods by P. S. Shankar

 

reviewed by A. Anand Kumar

455

Word Matters: Multicultural Perspectives on Information Societies. Alain Ambrosi et al. (eds)

 

reviewed by Subbiah Arunachalam

456 Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, 2005. Douglas C. Rees et al. (eds)
reviewed by G. Krishnamoorthy
457 Topics in the History of Pharmacology. Popat N. Patil et al. (eds)
reviewed by Madhu Dikshit

PERSONAL NEWS

458

Norman L. Johnson (1917–2004)

 

S. Kotz and S. Nadarajah


ACADEMY NEWS

459

Indian Academy of Sciences elects new Fellows – 2006


COVER CAPTION

 

COVER. Spatial patterns of changes in temperature and rainfall for the period 2071–2100 with reference to baseline under SRES scenario – A2 as simulated by PRECIS. See page 334.

The editor thanks Dr N. H. Ravindranath, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Dr P. R. Shukla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Dr Subodh Sharma, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi for agreeing to be guest editors for the special section.


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