Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

1465	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

1467	Probing Misconduct: Treading a Dangerous Path
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

1469	Investigating misconduct in science
	Sohan P. Modak; Response by Gopal Kundu; Hema Rangaswami
1471	The NCCS case
	G. Padmanaban; Response by Sohan P. Modak
1474	Climate change will pose new challenges to disaster management
	Sudip Mitra
1474	Need for a comprehensive eco-friendly approach for development
	Bharat K. Oswal
1475	Taxonomy, the legacy of Linnaeus, transformed to phylogenomics
	Sushil Kumar
1476	Tropical dry evergreen forests
	V. M. Meher-Homji

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NEWS

1477	Environmental biotechnology
	T. Manoharan

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RESEARCH NEWS

1478	Combating antibiotic resistance in bacteria by combination drug therapy
	Ramesh Maheshwari

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OPINION

1479	‘To be a techie or not to be’ – Science and technology scenario in India
	Aruna Dhathathreyan

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1481	Catalytic activity of superoxide dismutase: A method based on its concentration-dependent constant decrease in rate of autoxidation of pyrogallol
	T. Ramasarma and Aparna V. S. Rao
1483	Hide and seek of Monosolenium tenerum Griff. (Hepaticae: Monosoleniaceae) in Indian bryoflora
	D. K. Singh and S. K. Singh
1485	Ex situ conservation of Alectra chitrakutensis (Rau) R. Prasad & R.D. Dixit
	R. L. S. Sikarwar
1486	Arenaria curvifolia Majumdar (Caryophyllaceae): An endangered and endemic Himalayan herb rediscovered
	D. S. Rawat and Charan Singh Rana
1488	Occurrence of zygotic twin seedlings in mandarin orange plants of the northeastern Himalayan region
	A. Das, Bidisha Mandal, J. Sarkar and S. Chaudhuri
1489	Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in some commercial fishes and crabs of the Gulf of Cambay, India
	Mallampati Srinivasa Reddy, Bhavesh Mehta, Sunil Dave, Manish Joshi, Leena Karthikeyan, Venkatrama Krishna Susarla Sarma, Shaik Basha, Gadde Ramachandraiah and Prashant Bhatt

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GENERAL ARTICLES

1492	Global nanotechnology research literature overview
	Ronald N. Kostoff, Raymond G. Koytcheff and Clifford G. Y. Lau
1499	Need to develop inter-cultural standards for quality, safety and efficacy of traditional Indian systems of medicine
	Darshan Shankar, P. M. Unnikrishnan and Padma Venkatasubramanian

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REVIEW ARTICLE

1506	Approaches for removal of arsenic from groundwater of northeastern India
	A. K. Singh

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SPECIAL SECTION: MALARIA

1516	Genetic diversity and evolutionary history of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax
	Aparup Das, Ruchi Bajaj, Sujata Mohanty and Vijaylakshmi Swain
1525	Vaccines for malaria – prospects and promise
	V. S. Chauhan
1535	A vaccine to prevent transmission of human malaria: A long way to travel on a dusty and often bumpy road
	Nirbhay Kumar
1545	Drugs and drug targets against malaria
	Govindarajan Padmanaban, V. Arun Nagaraj and Pundi N. Rangarajan
1556	Understanding resistance to antimalarial 4-aminoquinolines, cinchona alkaloids and the highly hydrophobic arylaminoalcohols
	D. C. Warhurst
1561	Subcellular pH and Ca2+ in Plasmodium falciparum: Implications for understanding drug resistance mechanisms
	Michael Lanzer and Petra Rohrbach
1571	The biology and control of malaria vectors in India
	A. P. Dash, T. Adak, K. Raghavendra and O. P. Singh

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RESEARCH ARTICLES

1579	Validation of model-simulated sea surface current and sea surface temperature with observations in the Southern Indian Ocean
	Anshu Prakash Mishra, S. Rai and A. C. Pandey
1586	Solubility enhancement of hydrophobic drugs using synergistically interacting cyclo­dextrins and cosolvent
	Praveen Chaudhari, Pramodkumar Sharma, Nilesh Barhate, Parag Kulkarni and Chetan Mistry
1592	Fish diversity in relation to landscape and vegetation in central Western Ghats, India
	Sreekantha, M. D. Subash Chandran, D. K. Mesta, G. R. Rao, K. V. Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1604	Soil colour designation using Adobe PhotoshopTM in estimating soil fertility restoration by Acacia auriculiformis plantation on degraded land
	R. Doi and S. L. Ranamukhaarachchi
1610	Movement of chloroplasts in mesophyll cells of Garcinia indica in response to UV-B radiation
	Vanessa Rodrigues, Rupali Bhandari, Jitendra P. Khurana and Prabhat Kumar Sharma
1613	Purification of DNA from chloroplast and mitochondria of sugarcane
	S. Virupakshi and G. R. Naik
1620	Seed germination and seed storage behaviour of Nardostachys jatamansi DC., an endangered medicinal herb of high-altitude Himalaya
	R. S. Chauhan and M. C. Nautiyal
1625	On the seismic risk in the Hindukush–Pamir–Himalaya and their vicinity
	D. Shanker, R. B. S. Yadav and H. N. Singh
1631	Evaluation of a simple tagging method to monitor the growth of endangered species of seahorse
	A. P. Lipton and M. Thangaraj

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BOOK REVIEWS

1633	Nano: The Essentials – Understanding Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by T. Pradeep
	reviewed by K. Vijayamohanan
1633	Annual Review of Microbiology, 2006 by L. Nicholas Ornston et al. (eds)
	reviewed by Umesh Varshney
1635	Plant Micronutrients by C. P. Sharma (ed.)
	reviewed by Priyanka Sharma and Nandula Raghuram
1635	Principles of Pharmacology by H. K. Sharma and K. K. Sharma
	reviewed by B. N. Dhawan

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PERSONAL NEWS

1637	K. V. Ramanathan (1926–2007)
	Balu Venkataraman
1638	Rama N. Singh (1933–2007)
	B. N. Dwivedi

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COVER CAPTION

COVER.  Seahorse. See page 1631.

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