Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

3	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

5	Sivaraj Ramaseshan
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

7	The standard of doctoral programmes
	Chellam Balasundaram
7	Instrumentation facilities for research in India
	A. Kar
8	Accessing biological collections data of  Indian origin
	Aparna V. Watve, Jitendra Gaikwad and  Vishwas Chavan
9	Corchorus pseudo-olitorius
	Vatsavaya S. Raju; H. B. Singh
9	International citation analysis of materials research institutions
	Rustum Roy

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NEWS

10	Indian scientists honoured by Third World  Academy of Sciences
11	Vetiver system ecotechnology for water quality improvement and environmental enhancement
	U. C. Lavania

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RESEARCH NEWS

15	Next time we hear a frog croak, let’s say  thank you!
	Raghavendra Gadagkar

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COMMENTARY

17	New strides in seismology in India -- Pointers to progress and prospects
	T. M. Mahadevan

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20	From the archives

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

22	Growth of copper oxide nanorods
	A. K. Srivastava, Pragya Tiwari, Ashwani Kumar and  R. V. Nandedkar
24	Immunolocalization of sorghum antifungal protein in embryogenic seed tissues
	Modhumita Ghosh and Kandasamy Ulaganathan
26	Dodonaea angustifolia -- a potential biopesticide against Helicoverpa armigera
	H. D. Subashini, S. Malarvannan and Renjith R. Pillai
29	Vivipary in white clover (Trifolium repens L.)
	Sudipta Majumdar, Somenath Banerjee and K. K. De
30	Efficient shoot regeneration in pigeon pea, Cajanus cajan (L) Millsp. using seedling petioles
	T. Srinivasan, Vinod K. Verma and P. B. Kirti

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GENERAL ARTICLES

33	A comparative analysis of shifting of doctorates
	Naresh Kumar
37	Global promotion of herbal medicine: India’s opportunity
	N. K. Dubey, Rajesh Kumar and Pramila Tripathi

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REVIEW ARTICLES

42	Functional and pathophysiological study of disease processes in humans and animal systems: Role of magnetic resonance imaging and in vivo MR spectroscopy
	N. R. Jagannathan
62	Physiological functions of multidrug transporters in yeast
	Rajendra Prasad and Snehlata Panwar

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SPECIAL SECTION: TUBERCULOSIS

74	Cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis: The Holey Grail of disease transmission
	Mark A. Yoder, Gyanu Lamichhane and  William R. Bishai
82	Using Mycobacterium marinum and its hosts to study tuberculosis
	Lalita Ramakrishnan
93	Signal transduction systems of mycobacteria  with special reference to M. tuberculosis
	Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi and Deepak Sharma
103	Mycobacteria within its intracellular niche: survival of the pathogen or its host?
	Joyoti Basu
111	Glycopeptidolipid synthesis in mycobacteria
	H. Billman-Jacobe
115	Host genetics and tuberculosis susceptibility
	P. Selvaraj
122	Cellular signaling pathways and transcriptional regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Stress control and virulence
	Patricia A. Fontan, Shaun Walters and Issar Smith
135	Regulation of DNA topology in mycobacteria
	V. Nagaraja
141	Homologous recombination in mycobacteria
	K. Muniyappa, N. Ganesh, N. Guhan, Pawan Singh,  G. P. Manjunath, S. Datta, Nagasuma R. Chandra   and M. Vijayan
149	Deletion of the rel gene in Mycobacterium smegmatis reduces its stationary phase survival without altering the cell-surface associated properties
	Renjith Mathew, Anil Kr Ojha, Anjali A. Karande and Dipankar Chatterji
154	Protection against tuberculosis: How close are we to a perfect vaccine?
	Anil K. Tyagi and Aparna Khera
167	Drug discovery for tuberculosis: Bottlenecks  and path forward
	T. S. Balganesh, V. Balasubramanian and  S. Anand Kumar

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

177	An extended matched filter approach for the detection of hidden periodicities smeared by roughness
	V. C. Vani and S. Chatterjee
180	Arabian Sea mini warm pool during May 2000
	K. V. Sanilkumar, P. V. Hareesh Kumar,  Jossia Joseph and J. K. Panigrahi
185	Monitoring of glacial mass balance in the Baspa basin using accumulation area ratio method
	Anil V. Kulkarni, B. P. Rathore and Suja Alex
190	Sediment contamination by arsenic in parts of central-east India and analytical studies on its mobilization
	Piyush Kant Pandey, Sumita Nair, Ashish Bhui and Madhurima Pandey
197	Ammonites as biological stopwatch and biogeographical black box -- a case study from the Jurassic--Cretaceous boundary (150 Ma) of Kutch, Gujarat
	Sabyasachi Shome, Soma De, Pinaki Roy and Shiladri S. Das
202	Genetic diversity of rhizobia isolated from medicinal legumes growing in the  sub-Himalayan region of Uttaranchal
	P. Pandey, M. Sahgal, D. K. Maheswari and  B. N. Johri
207	The climbing perch (Anabas testudineus Bloch),  a freshwater fish, prefers larger unfamiliar  shoals to smaller familiar shoals
	V. V. Binoy and K. John Thomas
211	Jurassic frogs and the evolution of amphibian endemism in the Western Ghats
	Sushil K. Dutta, Karthikeyan Vasudevan,  M. S. Chaitra, Kartik Shanker and  Ramesh K. Aggarwal

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BOOK REVIEWS

217	Sustainable Aquaculture -- Global Perspectives
	reviewed by  H. Shivananda Murthy
217	Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants  Mate with their Wild Relatives
	reviewed by C. R. Bhatia

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PERSONAL NEWS

220	Light, lattices and leadership: remembering Ramaseshan
	reviewed by Rajaram Nityananda
222	S. Ramaseshan: The crystallography phase
	reviewed by K. Venkatesan and H. Manohar
223	Sivaraj Ramaseshan (1923--2003): A tribute
	reviewed by C. N. R. Rao
224	Ramaseshan and the Raman legacy
	reviewed by G. Srinivasan

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