In this issue
p. 0111

Stem cell research: Biology's new frontier
p. 0113 | Balaram, P.

Science, education and religion
p. 0115 | Sarma, V. V. S.

There is everything in a name
p. 0115 | Krishnamurthy, K. V.; Gnanasekaran, L.; Irudayaraj, V.

IF: A case of richness in poverty
p. 0116 | Ravikanth, G.

Mitigating nitrous oxide emission in tropical agriculture: Myths and realities
p. 0117 | Seneviratne, Gamini

Mapping fish research in India - Missed opportunity
p. 0118 | Vivekanandan, E.

Seismic wave amplification - Similarities between West Bengal (India) and Seattle (USA) basins
p. 0119 | Reddy, P. R.

Siderophile anomalies - A vexed problem in mantle geochemistry
p. 0120 | Sankaran, A. V.

From the archives
p. 0123

Art of petrography: A valuable guide to petrologists
p. 0124 | Narasimha, K. N. Prakash; Basava, Sharan; Kumar, Teeda Vijaya

Application of stable isotope geochemistry in earth sciences: Present status and future needs
p. 0124 | Sarkar, Anindya

Immediate type hypersensitivity reaction: An immunological marker for microfilariae negative individuals with hydrocele
p. 0125 | Beuria, M. K.; Mandal, N. N.; Bal, M. S.; Das, M. K.

Surface chlorophyll-a distribution in Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal using IRS-P4 Ocean Colour Monitor satellite data
p. 0127 | Chauhan, Prakash; Nagur, C. R. C.; Mohan, M.; Nayak, S. R.; Navalgund, R. R.

The Middle East synchrotron laboratory and India
p. 0130 | Khan, Sameen Ahmed

Diabetic retinopathy: Molecular mechanisms, present regime of treatment and future perspectives
p. 0133 | Sulochana, K. N.; Ramakrishnan, S.; Rajesh, M.; Coral, K.; Badrinath, S. S.

Plant biology - Retrospect and prospect
p. 0143 | Galston, Arthur W.

Emergence of plant molecular biology viewed through the portal of chloroplast research
p. 0153 | Bogorad, Lawrence

Plant genes and their expression
p. 0161 | Tyagi, Akhilesh K.

Signal transduction mechanisms in plants: An overview
p. 0170 | Clark, Gregory B.; Jr., Guy Thompson; Roux, Stanley J.

Phytochrome: A serine kinase illuminates the nucleus!
p. 0178 | Sharma, Rameshwar

Cryptic blues: Mechanism in sight!
p. 0189 | Khurana, J. P.

Action of plant hormones
p. 0199 | Johri, M. M.; Mitra, Doyel

Understanding molecular alphabets of the plant abiotic stress responses
p. 0206 | Grover, Anil; Kapoor, Avnish; Lakshmi, O. Satya; Agarwal, Sangeeta; Sahi, Chandan; Katiyar-agarwal, Surekha; Agarwal, Manu; Dubey, Himanshu

Chloroplast genetic system of higher plants: Chromosome replication, chloroplast division and elements of the transcriptional apparatus
p. 0217 | Mache, Régis; Lerbs-mache, Silva

Cyclin-dependent protein kinases, mitogen-activated protein kinases and the plant cell cycle
p. 0225 | Heberle-bors, Erwin

How plants pattern flowers: Lessons from molecular genetic studies of flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana a model plant
p. 0233 | Vijayraghavan, Usha

Genomics, DNA chips and a revolution of plant biology
p. 0252 | Maheshwari, S. C.; Maheshwari, Nirmala; Sopory, S. K.

Current initiatives in proteomics research: The plant perspective
p. 0262 | Dubey, Himanshu; Grover, Anil

Plant molecular biology in India - The beginnings
p. 0270 | Sopory, S. K.; Maheshwari, S. C.

Low energy cluster beam deposition technique: Development and deposition of cluster assembled Sb thin films
p. 0280 | Prasad, G. V. Ravi; Patel, B. K.; Chakravarty, S.; Mythili, R.; Vijayalakshmi, M.; Sekhar, B. R.; Sahu, S. N.; Ramamurthy, V. S.; Behera, S. N.

Analysis of protein folding using polarity-sensitive fluorescent probes
p. 0287 | John, Bino; Ranjith, M.; Lala, Anil K.; Dsilva, Patrick R.

In vitro propagation of Zizyphys mauritiana cultivar Umran by shoot tip and nodal multiplication
p. 0290 | Sudhersan, C.; Aboel-nil, M.; Hussain, J.

Neotectonically controlled catchment capture: An example from the Banas and Chambal drainage basins, Rajasthan
p. 0293 | Sinha-roy, S.

Animal Toxins: Facts and Protocols
p. 0299 | Gowda, T. Veerabasappa

Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar and the Mascarene, Seychelles and Comoro Islands
p. 0299 | Daniels, R. J. Ranjit

National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-NAAS-Tata Young Scientists’ Research Fellowship
p. 0301

AU-KBC Centre for Internet and Telecom Technologies
p. 0302

Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical Diseases
p. 0303

Sanjay Gandhi Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
p. 0304

Summer Scholar Program-Bioinformatics Opportunities
p. 0304

Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute
p. 0305

University of Pune-Department of Biotechnology
p. 0305

COORG2001: Indian Academy of Sciences Meetings in Neuroscience
p. 0308