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Vol. 89  No. 1
10 July  2005


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Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


GUEST EDITORIAL

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Balancing the equation
  Gautam R. Desiraju

CORRESPONDENCE

7

Einstein, Gandhi, Nehru and Tagore and their invariant principles
 

Arawind S. Parasnis

7

Universities and Vice-Chancellors
 

D. P. Gupta

8 Shed cloak of prejudice vis-à-vis women
 

T. Prem Anand

8 Projects in schools and colleges
  A. K. Biyani
9 Predicting potential geographic distributions of invading species
  A. Townsend Peterson
10 ‘Lakes for sale’ – A disturbing development
  R. V. Karanth
10 The living root bridges of Meghalaya
  Rosamma Mathew
11 Organic farming
  M. H. Mehta
12 Buckingham Canal saved people in Andhra Pradesh (India) from the tsunami of 26 December 2004
  B. Ramalingeswara Rao

14 From the archives

NEWS

14 P. Balaram takes over as Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
15 Coping with disasters in future: Some Indian initiatives

R. K. Chadha and Kusala Rajendran
16 Genetically modified organisms – Biosafety aspects

Monika Koul Moza
17 DRDO research grants

COMMENTARY

18 Relevance of geology
 

B. P. Radhakrishna


OPINION

21 Deemed university status to national laboratories: Need for a national debate
 

N. Raghuram


TECHNICAL NOTES

23 A precise control of AC servo motor using neural network PID controller
 

Geum-Bae Cho and Pyoung-Ho Kim


SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

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Effect of tsunami on coastal crop husbandry in parts of Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu

 

H. Chandrasekharan, V. P. Singh, D. U. M. Rao, M. Nagarajan and B. Chandrasekaran

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Was there active tsunami generation during 28 March 2005 Sumatra earthquake?

 

Vijay K. Agarwal, Neeraj Agarwal and Rajkumar

34 Impact of tsunami on meiofauna of Marina beach, Chennai, India
  K. Altaff, J. Sugumaran and Md. S. Naveed
38 Phylogeography and origin of Indian domestic cattle
  Mumtaz Baig, Albano Beja-Pereira, Rizwan Mohammad, Kashinath Kulkarni, Samira Farah and Gordon Luikart
41 Initial colonization of Red Pierrot butterfly, Talicada nyseus nyseus Guerin (Lycaenidae) in the lower western Himalayas: An indicator of the changing environment
  Arun P. Singh

GENERAL ARTICLE

43 Paediatric ocular trauma
 

Apjit Kaur and Ajai Agrawal


SPECIAL SECTION: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY

47 Cyanobacterial biodiversity and potential applications in biotechnology
 

N. Thajuddin and G. Subramanian

58 Fungal biodiversity: Distribution, conservation and prospecting of fungi from India
  C. Manoharachary, K. Sridhar, Reena Singh, Alok Adholeya, T. S. Suryanarayanan, Seema Rawat and B. N. Johri
72 ‘Unculturable’ bacterial diversity: An untapped resource
  Rakesh Sharma, Ravi Ranjan, Raj Kishor Kapardar and Amit Grover
78 Extremophilic microbes: Diversity and perspectives
  T. Satyanarayana, Chandralata Raghukumar and S. Shivaji
91 Microbial diversity in desert ecosystems
  Ashish Bhatnagar and Monica Bhatnagar
101 Microbial diversity: Application of micro-organisms for the biodegradation of xenobiotics
  Rakesh Kumar Jain, Manisha Kapur, Sumeet Labana, Banwari Lal, Priyangshu Manab Sarma, Dhruva Bhattacharya and Indu Shekhar Thakur
113 Genetic diversity of pathogenic microorganisms: Basic insights, public health implications and the Indian initiatives
  J. S. Virdi and Pooja Sachdeva
124 Rumen microbial ecosystem
  D. N. Kamra
136 Diversity of plant growth and soil health supporting bacteria
  K. V. B. R. Tilak, N. Ranganayaki, K. K. Pal, R. De, A. K. Saxena, C. Shekhar Nautiyal, Shilpi Mittal, A. K. Tripathi and B. N. Johri
151 Microorganism diversity: Strategy and action plan
  Bhavdish N. Johri, B. N. Ganguly, S. K. Goel, J. S. Virdi, A. K. Tripathi, R. K. Jain, D. N. Kamra and Ashish Bhatnagar

RESEARCH ARTICLE

155 Inventorying plant biodiversity in homegardens: A case study in Barak Valley, Assam, North East India
 

Tapasi Das and Ashesh Kumar Das


RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

164

Monsoon circulation induced variability in total column ozone over India


A. L. Londhe, B. Padma Kumari, J. R. Kulkarni and D. B. Jadhav

168

Levels of free radical scavengers and antioxidants in post-reperfused patients of myocardial infarction

 

Pushpa Bhakuni, M. Chandra and M. K. Misra

170

Phototoxic effect of some porphyrin derivatives against the larvae of Aedes aegypti, a major vector of dengue fever

 

Veranja Karunaratne, Anura Wickramasinghe, Ajith M. C. Herath, Priyani H. Amarasinghe,
S. H. P. Parakrama Karunaratne and Gamini Rajapakse

173

Studies on reproductive biology of a threatened tree fern, Cyathea spinulosa Wall. ex Hook

 

P. B. Khare, S. K. Behera, Ruchi Srivastava and S. P. Shukla

177

Isolation of endophytic plant growth promoting Burkholderia sp. MSSP from root nodules of Mimosa pudica

 

Piyush Pandey, S. C. Kang and D. K. Maheshwari

181 Purification of Tomato leaf curl Bangalore virus and production of polyclonal antibodies

Devaraja, Kirthi Narayanaswamy, H. S. Savithri and V. Muniyappa
183 Ground penetrating radar studies of a point-bar in the Mahi River Basin, Gujarat

Alpa Sridhar and Atul Patidar
190 Evidence of elastic strength variation across the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: A support to the Proterozoic collisional tectonics

Jimmy Stephen, S. B. Singh and D. B. Yedekar
195 Ecological impact of tsunami on Nicobar Islands (Camorta, Katchal, Nancowry and Trinkat)

S. Ramachandran, S. Anitha, V. Balamurugan, K. Dharanirajan, K. Ezhil Vendhan, Marie Irene Preeti Divien, A. Senthil Vel, I. Sujjahad Hussain and A. Udayaraj
201 Biomass availability and forage quality of Eurotia ceratoides Mey in the rangelands of Changthang, eastern Ladakh

Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Anjali Awasthi and Gopal S. Rawat

BOOK REVIEWS

206

Understanding Environment, Kiran B. Chhokar et al. (eds)

 

reviewed by T. V. Ramachandra and A. V. Nagarathna

207

Amphibians of Peninsular India by R. J. Ranjit Daniels

 

reviewed by K. V. Gururaja

208 Walker’s Carnivores of the World by Ronald. M. Nowak

reviewed by Shomita Mukherjee
208 Viruses and the Evolution of Life by Luis P. Villarreal

reviewed by J. S. Virdi

PERSONAL NEWS: OBITUARY

210 T. B. Rajashekar
 

Subbiah Arunachalam and N. Balakrishnan


HISTORICAL NOTES

211 Samanta’s planet placing
  Prahallad Chandra Naik

ADVERTISEMENTS

215 Department of Biotechnology
SUPPORT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF
SPECIALISED CENTRES FOR CELL-BASED THERAPY

218

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
CALL FOR PROPOSALS IN THE AREA OF GENOMICS AND METABOLOMICS OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS

219

Stree Shakti  “The Parallel Force”

220

Department of Science and Technology
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF RESEARCH INTEREST BY SCIENTISTS

221

Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology

222 XX Congress of the International Sericultural Commission
223 REFRESHER COURSE ON PHYSICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
224 TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH
225 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
225 DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICS
226 Deccan College
226 INDO-U.S. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FORUM
227 Charutar Vidya Mandal
227 Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi
228 G. T. Patil College
228 University of Mysore
228 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed University
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