CONTENTS

25 NOVEMBER 1998

IN THIS ISSUE

• 975 In this issue

• 977 Editorial: The Raman legacy

• 979 Ailments of Indian science and suggested remedies, Narendra Nath

• 979 New restrictions on animal experimentation – Where do we go from here? Anjali Shiras, Pradeep B. Parab and Ramesh R. Bhonde

• 980 Nuclear breeders, L. V. Krishnan

• 981 Author’s travails, N. Dadhich

• 982 Plantscape and insect biodiversity: Neglected dimensions, T. N. Ananthakrishnan

• 983 Geology underestimated in landslides, Rajesh K. Vishwakarma

• 983 Golden jubilee celebration at RRI – A brief report

• 985 Integers and fractions, Diptiman Sen

• 987 Nitric oxide as a cell signaling molecule: The 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine, P. K. Gupta

• 994 New trends and fashions in science and apathy of funding authorities towards areas in classical science D. D. Pant

• 991 Life beyond earth N. Bhandari

• 996 Who is afraid of breeders? Placid Rodriguez and S. M. Lee

• 1000 Molecular chaperones, T. S. Kumarevel, M. N. Ponnuswamy and M. Michael Gromiha

• 1002 Sponges from the Ordovician of (Takche Formation) Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, P. K. Maithy, Gopendra Kumar and Amit K. Ghosh

• 1006 Our dynamic Sun: The pricipal source of new physics Bhola N. Dwivedi

• 1011Groundwater contamination and health hazards by some of the most commonly used pesticides Imran Ali and C. K. Jain

• 1015 Baculoviruses as biopesticides, Seema Mishra

• 1023 Protein alterations associated with salinity, desiccation, high and low temperature stresses and abscisic acid application in seedlings of Pusa 169, a high-yielding rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar Ashwani Pareek, Sneh Lata Singla and Anil Grover

• 1036 High frequency induction of multiple shoots and plant regeneration from seedling explants of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) N. Geetha, P. Venkatachalam, V. Prakash and G. Lakshmi Sita

• 1042 A thermotropic biaxial nematic liquid crystal S. Chandrasekhar, Geetha G. Nair, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, K. Praefcke and D. Blunk

• 1046 An efficient technique to solve TSP and its extension to spatially spread vertices C. N. Ravikumar, K. Chidananda Gowda and P. Nagabhushan

• 1052 Induction of somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration from leaf callus of Terminalia arjuna Bedd. Nishi Kumari, Uma Jaiswal and V. S. Jaiswal

• 1056 Induction of root nodules and genetic variability for paranodulation in rainfed upland rice Girish M. Kalagudi and V. V. Shenoy

• 1058 Mycoplasma-like organisms as the causative agent of witches’ broom of Cedrela (Cedrela toona Roxb.) in Himachal Pradesh, India S. Nath

• 1062 Discovery of vesicular exocytosis in procaryotes and its role in Salmonella invasion Rakesh Chander YashRoy

• 1066 Induced spawning and establishment of a captive population for an endangered fish, Ompok bimaculatus in India S. Sridhar, C. Vijayakumar and M. A. Haniffa

• 1068 Female heterogamety in Indian populations of Polypedilum nubifer (Diptera: Chironomidae) Abhijit De and S. P. Gupta

• 1070 Geothermal and seismic evidence for the fluids in the crust beneath Koyna, India S. P. Sharma and D. M. Mall

• 1074 Nonchaotic earthquake occurrence near Oroville reservoir, California, H. N. Srivastava and S. N. Bhattachary

• 1078 Corrections: Detection of antibacterial activity in the floral petals of some higher plants, M. P. Darokar, A. Mathur, S. Dwivedi, P. Bhalla, S. P. S. Khanuja and Sushil Kumar [Curr. Sci., 1998, 75, 187–189]
  Occurrence of Veryhachium and its implication on the age of the Vaishnodevi Limestone, Jammu, B. S. Venkatachala and Ashok Kumar [Curr. Sci., 1998, 75, 431–432]
  Energy and environmental issues in transport [Curr. Sci., 1998, 75, 804]

• 1079 Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary, reviewed by George E. Andrews

• 1080 Science and Engineering Indicators 1998, reviewed by S. Arunachalam

• 1081 Basic Demographic Techniques and Applications, reviewed by C. Chandrasekaran

• 1081 Biomass Energy Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference, reviewed by S. S. Kalbag

• 1082 Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development and Maturation in Mammals: Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications, reviewed by S. K. Saidapur and B. A. Shanbhag