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Vol 78 No 9
10th May 2000
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IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL
CORRESPONDENCE
| 1051 |
Genetically
modified crops claim their first victim, Subhojit Datta, P. K. Lawrence and K. R.
Koundal |
| 1052 |
The fun of
holding Indian Science Congress melas, H. S. Virk |
| 1052 |
Problems facing
S&T in India, V. Sasi Kumar |
| 1053 |
Issues regarding
S&T in India, M. V. Nayudu |
| 1054 |
Science
popularization and the Indian Constitution, M. J. Varkey |
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NEWS
| 1054 |
Multi-faceted
aspects of tree ring analysis, Amalava Bhattacharyya and B. D. Singh |
| 1056 |
C.
N. R. Rao elected to French Academy |
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OPINION
SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE
| 1060 |
Retrieval of new coloured chrysanthemum
through organogenesis from sectorial chimera, Debasis Chakrabarty, A. K. A. Mandal and
S. K. Datta |
| 1062 |
Cultivation of Himalayan aconites under
polyhouse conditions, M. C. Nautiyal and A. N. Purohit |
| 1063 |
Antagonistic potential of N2-fixing
Acetobacter diazotrophicus against Colletotrichum falcatum Went., a causal organism of
red-rot of sugarcane, R. Muthukumarasamy, G. Revathi and M. Vadivelu |
| 1066 |
Anomalous stress pattern in Chamoli region
observed from IRS-1B data, Prasanjit Dash, Ramesh P. Singh and Frithjof Voss |
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GENERAL ARTICLES
| 1071 |
Cosmology: Past, present and future, Jayant V. Narlikar |
| 1076 |
Importance
of small and moderate size optical telescopes, Ram Sagar |
| 1082 |
Catalysts
for plastics - New science for new materials, Sumit Bhaduri and Virendra Kumar Gupta |
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RESEARCH ACCOUNT
RESEARCH ARTICLES
| 1098 |
Atomic
displacement parameters of homologous proteins: Conservation of dynamics, V. M. S.
Lenin, S. Parthasarathy and M. R. N. Murthy |
| 1105 |
Species diversity
and relative abundance of lichens in Rumbak catchment of Hemis National Park in Ladakh,
Hans Raj Negi and D. K. Upreti |
| 1112 |
Role of
catecholamines and corticosteroids in regulation of the oxidative metabolism in male
Clarias batrachus, D. S. Lynshiang and B. B. P. Gupta |
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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
| 1118 |
Spherically symmetric empty space and its
dual in general relativity, Naresh Dadhich |
| 1120 |
Comparative efficacy of Ayush-64 vs
chloroquine in vivax malaria, Neena Valecha, C. Usha Devi, Hema Joshi, V. K. Shahi, V.
P. Sharma and Shiv Lal |
| 1123 |
Correlating dynamics to conformational
properties: An analysis of atomic displacement parameters (B-values) in high-resolution
protein structures, S. Parthasarathy and M. R. N. Murthy |
| 1127 |
The plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum, an
elegant system to demonstrate the importance of genome integrity in traversing the G2/M
checkpoint of the cell cycle, P. R. Jayasree, P. R. Manish Kumar and R. Vimala Nair |
| 1130 |
Agrobacterium-mediated genetic
transformation and regeneration of transgenic plants from cotyledon explants of groundnut
(Arachis hypogaea L.) via somatic embryogenesis, P. Venkatachalam, N. Geetha, Abha
Khandelwal, M. S. Shaila and G. Lakshmi Sita |
| 1136 |
Blinding induces copulatory activity among
inactive males of South Indian gerbils, Biju B. Thomas and Mathew M. Oommen |
| 1138 |
Large palaeolakes in Kaveri basin in Mysore
Plateau: Late Quaternary fault reactivation, K. S. Valdiya and G. Rajagopalan |
| 1142 |
Occurrence of pteropods in a deep eastern
Arabian Sea core: Neotectonic implications, A. D. Singh, R. Schiebel and N. R. Nisha |
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BOOK REVIEWS
| 1145 |
Structure
of Atomic Nuclei, reviewed by Radhey Shyam |
| 1146 |
Genetics
and the Extinc-tion of Species, reviewed by Amitabh Joshi |
| 1148 |
Plant
Systematics - Theory and Practice, reviewed by K. M. Matthew |
| 1149 |
Biogeochemistry
of Rivers in Tropical South and Southeast Asia, reviewed by K. C. Sahu |
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GENERALIA
| 1151 |
Professor
Srinivasa R. S. Varadhan, K. B. Athreya |
| 1153 |
On Professor S.
R. S. Varadhan's contributions to hydrodynamic limits, Sunder Sethuraman |
| 1155 |
On the
Stroock-Varadhan theory of diffusions, S. Ramasubramanian |
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