IN THIS ISSUE

• 1286 In this issue

• 1288 Peer review, P. Balaram

• 1290 Nuclear tests, R. Balasubramanian, Rajeeva L. Karandikar and M. S. Raghunathan

• 1291 Current Science – The vital link, Vas Dev

• 1291 Strategy for promoting science, M. Periasamy

• 1292 An easy entry to Ramanujan’s magnificent mathematical palace, N. R. Ranganathan

• 1293 IIT Delhi hosts Henry Ford Chair

• 1293 Seminar on ‘science and the media’, K. Manjula

• 1294 Biogeochemistry of the Arabian Sea: Modelling and synthesis, P. S. Swathi

• 1295 Search for an individual in the midst of a crowd: Tracking a single molecule Dipankar Chatterji

• 1296 Survey of India maps: (Ir)rationale about restricted maps, S. M. Mathur

• 1297 Futile exercise in thought control, S. R. Valluri

• 1299 Novel, cost-effective method of archiving manuscripts, Sangeetha Menon and George M. Williams

• 1301 Why does river Brahmaputra remain untamed? K. S. Valdiya

• 1305 Avifauna of Mouling National Park, Arunachal Pradesh, India, A. K. Sen and S. K. Mukhopadhyay

• 1308 Molecular markers for genetic fidelity during micropropagation and germplasm conservation? P. K. Gupta and Rajeev K. Varshney

• 1311 Photonic gap materials J. B. Pendry

• 1317 Nonlinear optics of periodic and quasiperiodic structures S. Dutta Gupta

• 1324 Pearls and shells M. S. Giridhar and S. K. Srivatsa

• 1325 Diffraction in heterogeneous liquid crystals K. A. Suresh, G. S. Ranganath and M. S. Giridhar

• 1330 Life before mean free path N. Kumar

• 1334 Imaging through turbid media Hema Ramachandran

• 1341 Tissue optics P. K. Gupta

• 1348 Moonstones M. S. Giridhar and S. K. Srivatsa

• 1349 Photonic crystals G. S. Ranganath

• 1351 Turmeric – Nature’s precious gift N. M. Khanna

• 1357 Improvement in nitrogen use efficiency: Physiological and molecular approaches Yash P. Abrol, Sukumar R. Chatterjee, P. Ananda Kumar and Vanita Jain

• 1365 Expression of anthocyanin pigmentation in wheat tissues transformed with anthocyanin regulatory genes H. S. Chawla, Leslie A. Cass and J. A. Simmonds

• 1371 Quantum signature of the classical chaos in the field-induced barrier crossing in a quartic potential P. K. Chattaraj, S. Sengupta and A. Poddar

• 1376 Multicomponent coordinated defence response of rice to Rhizoctonia solani causing sheath blight S. Bera and R. P. Purkayastha

• 1384 Characterization of tobacco mosaic virus isolated from tomato in India Shoba Cherian, Jomon Joseph, V. Muniyappa and H. S. Savithri

• 1388 Serotyping of foot-and-mouth disease virus from aerosols in the infected area V. V. S. Suryanarayana, Pradeep Bist, G. R. Reddy and L. D. Misra

• 1391 Identification of alpha-terthienyl radical in vitro: A new aspect in alpha-terthienyl phototoxicity Manish Nivsarkar

• 1393 Erratum: Crystal structure of the peanut lectin–T-antigen complex. Carbohydrate specificity generated by water bridges, R. Ravishankar, M. Ravindran, K. Suguna, A. Surolia and M. Vijayan [Curr. Sci., 1997, 72, 855–861]

• 1394 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein – Volume 8 – The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914–1918, reviewed by N. Mukunda

• 1395 Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 1998, reviewed by S. K. Sopory

• 1397 Annual Review of Immunology 1998, reviewed by Dipankar Nandi