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Vol. 94  No. 11
10 June 2008


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IN THIS ISSUE

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In this issue


EDITORIAL

1345

Writers and Readers
  P. Balaram

CORRESPONDENCE

1347

A tribute to reviewers

  R. Sunder

1347

Some suggestions to the funding agencies

  A. S. Rao
1348 ‘Endangered science’, ‘vanishing tribe’ and ‘tax-on-me’
  D. S. Rawat
1349 Research spending in science and technology: Radical reform measures needed in the review process
  Naibedya Chattopadhyay
1349 The call for an Elephant Reserve in Andhra Pradesh
  E. N. Murthy, Chiranjibi Pattanaik, C. Sudhakar Reddy and V. S. Raju
1350 Personalized genome game – A new social discrimination in the offing
  Biju Dharmapalan
1351 Pest management for cotton ecosystems or ecosystem management for cotton protection?
  S. Vennila
1352 An environment friendly cheap method to reduce coastal malaria in India
  Anupam Ghosh
1353 Farmers struggle for irrigation water in India’s semi-arid region
  Govindasamy Agoramoorthy

NEWS

1355 Cattle plague wiped away
  Neelam Pereira
1356 Asia in the midst of rice crunch
  Neelam Pereira
1357 Molecular mapping and marker-assisted selection in plants
  Jitendra Kumar
1358 Neutron Scattering 2008
  R. Mukhopadhyay and S. L. Chaplot
1361 Marine biology to marine biotechnology: A leap forward
  Madhavi Indap

COMMENTARY

1363 Frames of science?
  Sneha Sudha Komath

OPINION

1365 Cisgenics – Facilitating the second green revolution in India by improved traditional plant breeding
  E. Jacobsen and Karaba N. Nataraja

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

1367 Megatsunamis as a possible means of long distance transport of palynomorphs

 

Arun Kumar

1369

Evidence of female-produced sex pheromone in red pumpkin beetle, Aulacophora foveicollis Lucas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

 

K. Santhosh Kumar and L. Nadarajan

1372 Pollinator-induced anther dehiscence in Incarvillea emodi (Bignoniaceae)
  Susheel Verma, Veenu Kaul, Rani Magotra and A. K. Koul

SPECIAL SECTION: REACTIVE NITROGEN IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

1375 A perspective on reactive nitrogen in a global, Asian and Indian context

 

James Galloway, N. Raghuram and Y. P. Abrol

1382

Reactive nitrogen in Indian agriculture: Inputs, use efficiency and leakages

 

Bijay-Singh and Yadvinder-Singh

1394 Molecular physiology of plant nitrogen use efficiency and biotechnological options for its enhancement
  Ravi Ramesh Pathak, Altaf Ahmad, Sunila Lochab and Nandula Raghuram
1404 Nitrogen cycling in Indian terrestrial natural ecosystems
  A. S. Raghubanshi
1413 Nitrogen transport by rivers of south Asia
  V. Subramanian
1419 Nitrogen cycling: A review of the processes, transformations and fluxes in coastal ecosystems
  R. Purvaja, R. Ramesh, A. K. Ray and Tim Rixen
1439 Estimates of emission and deposition of reactive nitrogenous species for India
  C. Sharma, M. K. Tiwari and H. Pathak
1447 Nitrogen pool, flows, impact and sustainability issues of human waste management in the city of Bangalore
  H. N. Chanakya and H. C. Sharatchandra
1455 Regional nitrogen cycle: An Indian perspective
  A. Velmurugan, V. K. Dadhwal and Y. P. Abrol
1469 Health issues related to N pollution in water and air
  Sunil Kumar Gupta, R. C. Gupta, S. K. Chhabra, Sevgi Eskiocak, A. B. Gupta and Rita Gupta

GENERAL ARTICLE

1478 RF plasma-treated polymers for biomedical applications
  N. Gomathi, A. Sureshkumar and Sudarsan Neogi

RESEARCH ARTICLE

1487 Habitat suitability assessment for the endangered Nilgiri Laughingthrush: A multiple logistic regression approach
  Ashfaq A. Zarri, Asad R. Rahmani, A. Singh and S. P. S. Kushwaha

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

1495

Laser micro Raman investigations on gas hydrates

P. S. R. Prasad, K. Shiva Prasad, Y. Sowjanya and Kalachand Sain

1499

Understanding the suspended sediment dynamics in the coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal using high resolution ocean colour data

 

P. N. Sridhar, I. V. Ramana, M. M. Ali and B. Veeranarayana

1503

Observation on oceanographic parameters of nearshore waters off Yanam, during the cyclonic storm

 

V. Sanil Kumar, K. Ashok Kumar and P. Pednekar

1509

Isolation of a serine Kunitz trypsin inhibitor from leaves of Terminalia arjuna

 

Shruti Rai, K. K. Aggarwal and C. R. Babu

1513 PCR-based sex determination of cetaceans and dugong from the Indian seas
  P. Jayasankar, B. Anoop and M. Rajagopalan

BOOK REVIEWS

1517 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007, Blandford et al. (eds)
  reviewed by Tarun Deep Saini
1518 Bridge Engineering, by S. Ponnuswamy
reviewed by B. K. Raghu Prasad
1518 Mild Stress and Healthy Ageing: Applying Hormesis in Ageing Research and Interventions, Eric Le Bourg and Suresh I. S. Rattan (eds)
reviewed by Mahendra K. Thakur
1519 Learning from Failure – Long-term Behaviour of Heavy Masonry Structures, L. Binda (ed.)
reviewed by B. V. Venkatarama Reddy
1520 Annual Review of Cell and Develop­mental Biology, 2007, R. Schekman et al. (eds)
reviewed by Sanjeev Galande

COVER CAPTION

 

COVER.  The nitrogen cascade illustrated by Galloway et al. was further adapted to suit India-specific N-issues and bring out the dominance of agricultural, power, transport and urban activities as major components of the N-cascade. As development levels increase, the role of these non-agricultural activities in the N-cycle becomes significant. See page 1375. (Cover design: H. Nandini; Photos: H. N. Chanakya).


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