Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

623	In this issue

---

EDITORIAL

625	The seeds of terror
	P. Balaram

---

CORRESPONDENCE

627	Publish in Indian journals
	R. D. Goel
627	Science – Big, small and beautiful
	P. R. Krishnaswamy
628	Appointment of Vice-Chancellors in universities
	H. S. Virk
629	Role of funding agencies for the betterment of taxonomy
	Biju Dharmapalan
629	EERC and closure of Earthquake Division of GSI
	Brijesh Barthwal
630	Bandwagon science in India
	S. K. Sikka
631	The mill tailings of Kolar gold mines
	J. V. Subbaraman; reply by  B. R. Krishna and F. H. Gejji
633	Musical notes from a veena
	P. P. Rao

---

NEWS

635	Medical journals for free
637	Plant biodiversity and its conservation
	J. S. Dargan and T. A. Sarma
638	Indo-French workshop on climate and environment
	P. Goswami, C. K. Devasena and R. Sadourny

---

RESEARCH NEWS

641	New perspectives in cancer diagnosis and treatment by gene profiling
	Hina Patel and Pradip Sinha
644	From the archives

---

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

645	Use of the  fungus Beauvera bassiana (Bals.) Vuill (Moniliales: Deuteromycetes) for controlling termites
	V. Padmaja and Gurvinder Kaur
647	Monsoon onset-2000 monitored using multi-frequency microwave radiometer on-board Oceansat-1
	B. Simon, P. C. Joshi, P. K. Thapliyal, P. K. Pal, Abhijit Sarkar, R. C. Bhatia, R. K. Jain, Devendra Singh, S. K. Mukherjee and H. V. Gupta
651	A note on the plankton from Barren Island region, Andamans
	M. Eashwar, K. Kuberaraj, T. Nallathambi and G. Govindarajan

---

GENERAL ARTICLES

655	GM crops: Rationally irresistible
	Syamal Krishna Ghosh
661	Indian MST radar – Mesospheric studies
	Jayati Datta, S. C. Chakravarty and B. S. N. Prasad

---

REVIEW ARTICLE

667	Alpha-terthienyl – A plant-derived new generation insecticide
	Manish Nivsarkar, Bapu Cherian and Harish Padh

---

RESEARCH ARTICLE

673	Isolation of siderophore-producing strains of Rhizobium meliloti and their biocontrol potential against Macrophomina phaseolina that causes charcoal rot of groundnut
	N. K. Arora, S. C. Kang and D. K. Maheshwari

---

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

678	Role of structural requirements in web-site selection in Cyrtophora cicatrosa Stoliczka (Araneae: Araneidae)
	Dinesh Rao and G. Poyyamoli
680	Restriction of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism leads to suppression of photosynthetic carbon assimilation but not of photochemical electron transport in pea mesophyll protoplasts
	K. Padmasree and A. S. Raghavendra
684	Respiratory enzyme activities in the oxygen-deficient waters of the Arabian Sea
	M. S. Shailaja
689	Differential expression of a unique protein by intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
	Sujatha Narayanan, V. Vishwanath and P. R. Narayanan
693	Courtship, mating and egg-laying in Tylototriton verrucosus from the Darjeeling district of the Eastern Himalaya
	Debjani Roy and Md. Mushahidunnabi
695	Middle Cretaceous carbonate build-ups and volcanic seamount in the Shyok suture, Northern Ladakh, India
	Rajeev Updhyay
699	Errata

---

PERSONAL NEWS

700	T. Radhakrishnan Menon
	B. V.  Iyer

---

HISTORICAL NOTES

701	Search for ancient Indian records of the sighting of supernovae
	Jayant V. Narlikar and Saroja Bhate

---

BOOK REVIEWS

706	The Coming of Materials Science
	reviewed by P. Rama Rao
711	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2001
	reviewed by G. Padmanaban

---

ADVERTISEMENTS

713	CENTRE FOR SPONSORED SCHEMES AND PROJECTS
714	CENTRE FOR BIOCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
716	CORE AND VISITING FACULTY POSITIONS
717	SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
718	INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE
719	CSIR
720	Department of Science & Technology
721	National Bioscience Awards for Career Development: 2001–2002
723	Poetry in Science
724	Centre for Ecological Sciences
726	Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University), Howrah 711 103

---