In this Issue
p. 1938

Should we choose geoengineering to reverse global warming?
p. 1939 | Bala, G.

Harnessing transgenerational plant immunity
p. 1941 | Sarma, B. K; Singh, H. B.

Bhatnagar Laureates and Fellows of the Royal Society
p. 1942 | Vidyasagar, M.

Response
p. 1942 | Luthra, Rajesh

Genetic resources for EFSB resistance in brinjal
p. 1943 | Samuels, J.

Preserving an indigenous cultivar
p. 1945 | Ghosh, Mahua

Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences
p. 1946 | Rajgopal, Sushila; Punyakoti, G. V.

Venom’s verdict for brain tumours
p. 1950 | Sandhya Rani, B.

Pradeep P. Mujumdar
p. 1952 | Punyakoti, G. V.

Bats in Indian coffee plantations: doing more good than harm?
p. 1958 | Wordley, Claire; Altringham, John; Raman, T. R. Shankar

Assessment of the Sunkoshi (Nepal) landslide using multitemporal satellite images
p. 1961 | Roy, Priyom; Martha, Tapas R.; Vinod Kumar, K.

Design and construction of a confocal laser scanning microscope for biomolecular imaging
p. 1965 | Arunkarthick, S.; Bijeesh, M. M; Vetcha, Anand Satya; Rastogi, Nishith; Nandakumar, P.; Varier, Geetha K.

2014 International Year of Family Farming: a boost to evergreen revolution
p. 1970 | Kesavan, P. C.; Swaminathan, M. S.

Synthetic genomics: from synthesis of prokaryotic genomes to synthesis of a fully functional eukaryotic chromosome
p. 1975 | Gupta, P. K.; Jaiswal, V.

Post-independence science policy and science funding in India
p. 1983 | Mukhopadhyay, Dipankar

Graph theoretical modelling and analysis of fragile honey bee pollination network
p. 1988 | Pandiaraja, D.; Nagendran, N. Arun; Chandrasekaran, S.; Aditya, R. P.

Assessment of vulnerability to cyclones and floods in Odisha, India: a district-level analysis
p. 1997 | Bahinipati, Chandra Sekhar

Analysis of selected Crinum species for galanthamine alkaloid: an anti-Alzheimer drug
p. 2008 | Jagtap, U. B.; Lekhak, M. M.; Fulzele, D. P.; Yadav, S. R.; Bapat, V. A.

Assessment of qPCR, nested RT-PCR and ELISA techniques in diagnosis of Chikungunya
p. 2011 | Parashar, Deepti; Paingankar, Mandar S.; Sudeep, A. B.; More, Ashwini; Shinde, Sapana B.; Arankalle, Vidya A.

Estimation of monthly average sunshine duration over China based on cloud fraction from MODIS satellite data
p. 2013 | He, Yongjian; Qiu, Xinfa; Cao, Yun; Zeng, Yan

Is Ganga the longest river in the Ganga Basin, India?
p. 2018 | Verma, Neelam; Devrani, Rahul; Singh, Vimal

Rare earth element abundances in some A-type Pan-African granitoids of Karbi Hills, North East India
p. 2023 | Majumdar, D.; Dutta, P.

Carbonate formation of the Lower Carboniferous in central part of Volga–Ural basin
p. 2029 | Kolchugin, Anton Nikolaevich; Morozov, Vladimir Petrovich; Korolev, E. A.; Eskin, Aleksey Aleksandrovich

M. S. Swaminathan: a journey from the frontiers of life sciences to the state of a ‘Zero Hunger’ world
p. 2036 | Kesavan, P. C.; Iyer, R. D.

Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health: Access to Drugs in Developing Countries. Kenneth C. Shadlen et al. (eds)
p. 2052 | Jain, Karuna

Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Physics. S. P. Khare
p. 2053 | Natarajan, Vasant

Fundamentals of Agricultural Engineering. Er. Sanjay Kumar, Er. Vishal Kumar and Ram Kumar Sahu
p. 2054 | Yadav, Rajvir

Nurturing Families Around the World: Building a Culture of Peace. Catherine Bernard and John J. Shea (eds)
p. 2054 | Sonawat, Reeta

The Passenger Pigeon. Errol Fuller
p. 2055 | Herlekar, Ipsita

List of Institutional Members
p. 2057

Acknowledgements
p. 2062

1st National Bioresources and Sustainable Development Summit - 2015 - Imphal, Manipur, India
p. 2067

Science Academies’ Refresher Course in Thin Films and Nanoscience
p. 2068

Research Positions Available - Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation
p. 2069

International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Management
p. 2070

SRF/RA – CSIR - Pondicherry University
p. 2071

Scientific Research - National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research
p. 2071

Junior Research Fellow - A. B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences
p. 2072

Visiting Students' Research Programme - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
p. 2072

Annual Awards: Society for Ethnopharmacology, India - Society for Ethnopharmacology (SFE-INDIA)
p. 2073

Visiting Scientist Programme 2015 - Indian National Science Academy
p. 2073

Junior Research Fellowship - K.S. Hegde Medical Academy
p. 2074

Junior Research Fellowship - K. S. Rangasamy College of Arts and Science
p. 2074

Junior Research Fellowship - Bose Institute
p. 2075

Call for Nominations - INSA Young Historian of Science Award – 2015
p. 2075

Junior Research Fellowship - Dayalbagh Educational Institute
p. 2076

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
p. 2076

Junior Research Fellowship - Sir Syed College, Taliparamba
p. 2076

Research Positions - Manipal University
p. 2076

Junior Research Fellow - Yenepoya University
p. 2077

Assistant Professor - Shivaji University
p. 2077

Junior Research Fellow - Department of Agricultural Biotechnology
p. 2077

Director - Department of Atomic Energy
p. 2078

Training Programme on ‘Phenotyping for Drought Adaptive Traits and Trait Introgression through Molecular Approaches’
p. 2078