Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

156	In this issue

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CORRESPONDENCE

157	India’s second green revolution needs to transform the drylands
	Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
157	Disappearing beaches of Kerala
	N. M. Shareef
159	Ayurveda: where are we?
	A. Kar
159	Anti-infective agents: Spectrum and selectivity
	Jacob E. John
160	Fungal biodiversity: Putting our house in order
	N. D. Sharma

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NEWS

161	World’s largest rainwater harvesting project in Karnataka
	A. R. Shivakumar
163	Biology today
	Jayshree Vencatesan
165	Modelling infectious diseases
	Gautam I. Menon, Sitabhra Sinha, Vineeta Bal and Somdatta Sinha
166	Biological control of insect pests and diseases of forestry importance
	N. Senthilkumar

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COMMENTARY

167	Geographical indications and agriculture-related intellectual property rights issues
	S. Nagarajan

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OPINION

171	Whither science in India
	B. K. Sen

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TECHNICAL NOTE

174	Multi-angle polarization imager: A satellite sensor for studies of continental aerosols
	S. K. Satheesh and K. Krishna Moorthy

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

177	Dynamics of initiation of disease in fishes through interaction of microbes and the environment
	D. Kar, J. Mazumdar, I. Halder and M. Dey
179	Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg: A new generic record in Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica
	M. Palanisamy
182	Cryopreservation of oil palm pollen
	Rajesh Tandon, Rekha Chaudhury and K. R. Shivanna

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GENERAL ARTICLE

184	Many faces of superoxide dismutase, originally known as erythrocuprein
	T. Ramasarma

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

192	Evidence of methane release from Blake Ridge ODP Hole 997A during the Plio-Pleistocene: Benthic foraminifer fauna and total organic carbon
	Ajoy K. Bhaumik and Anil K. Gupta
200	Crustal structure in Central India from gravity and magnetotelluric data
	L. K. Das, D. C. Naskar, K. K. Roy, R. K. Majumdar, K. Choudhury and S. Srivastava

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

209	Sodium hyaluronate of defined molecular size for treating osteoarthritis
	Dhimant P. Mehta, Kushal Shodhan, Rajiv I. Modi and Prasanta K. Ghosh
213	Extension of range of distribution of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis Biju & Bossuyt (Amphibia: Anura: Nasikabatrachidae) along Western Ghats, with some insights into its bionomics
	C. Radhakrishnan, K. C. Gopi and Muhamed Jafer Palot
216	Vegetative and reproductive phenophases in Aesculus indica Colebr. at two different altitudes in Himalayan forests
	C. M. Sharma and V. P. Khanduri
225	Introgression of broad-spectrum blast resistance gene(s) into cultivated rice (Oryza sativa ssp indica) from wild rice O. rufipogon
	T. Ram, N. D. Majumder, B. Mishra, M. M. Ansari and G. Padmavathi
230	Characterization of variability among isolates of Fusarium graminearum associated with head scab of wheat using DNA markers
	M. S. Saharan, A. Naef, J. Kumar and R. Tiwari
235	Anti-inflammatory and antitumour activities of cultured mycelium of morel mushroom, Morchella esculenta
	B. Nitha, C. R. Meera and K. K. Janardhanan
240	High fluoride in groundwater of Palghat District, Kerala
	E. Shaji, Bindu, J. Viju and D. S. Thambi

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BOOK REVIEWS

246	Detritus and Decomposition in Ecosystem by Zafar Reshi and Sumira Tyub
	reviewed by Manzoor A. Shah
246	Discoveries in Photosynthesis. Vol. 20. Govindjee, J. T. Beatty, H. Gest and J. F. Allen (eds)
	reviewed by S. C. Maheshwari
248	Special Issue on Proceedings of International Symposium on ‘Applied Geochemistry in the Evaluation and Management of Onshore and Offshore Geo-resources’. K. Surya Prakash Rao and V. Divakara Rao (eds)
	reviewed by Burra Subrahmanyam

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OCCASIONAL POEMS

251	Musings on Memory, a Synaptic Symphony
	C. E. Veni Madhavan

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252	ACADEMY NEWS

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Lake in Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. See page 179.

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