Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 80 - Issue 2: 25 Jan, 2001
In this Issue
In this issue
p. 0111

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

Correspondence
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.

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

Meeting Report
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

Scientific Correspondence
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.

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

Review Articles
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.

Special Section: Plant Molecular Biology
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

The Coming of age of plant embryology
p. 0244 | Raghavan, V.

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.

Research Communications
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.

Inheritance of α-amylase isozyme patterns and their association with early vigour-related traits in rainfad upland rice
p. 0284 | Diwan, J.R.; Shenoy, V.V.

Analysis of protein folding using polarity-sensitive fluorescent probes
p. 0287 | John, Bino; 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.

Book Reviews
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

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