In this issue
p. 0252

Measuring and Assessing Science
p. 0255 | Balaram, P.

Indian science: The case of the missing generation
p. 0257 | Kamath, P. Vishnu

Science teaching in universities on contract basis
p. 0258 | Tripathi, Yamini Bhusan

Cost of research index: What is an SCI paper worth?
p. 0258 | Prathap, Gangan

Science in India --On the comments of Gupta and Garg
p. 0259 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

Research in SCTIMST
p. 0259 | Appukuttan, P. S.

The looming threat of smallpox
p. 0260 | Santiapillai, Charles

The Academy Meeting 2002
p. 0261 | Sen, Nirupa

Neem for the industry or for the common man: Where does India stand?
p. 0265 | Kumar, A. R. V.

IOGOOS-I Mauritius 2002: Establishment of a regional alliance
p. 0267 | Soondron, Vishnu; Ragoonaden, Sachooda; Mukhopadhyay, Ranadhir

Pollin Prize for Mahalanabis
p. 0269

Sensitive flow sensors with carbon nanotubes
p. 0269 | Sen, Nirupa

Mechanism of peptide-bond formation by ribosome revisited
p. 0271 | Burma, D. P.

Animals in research
p. 0273 | Sen, Nirupa

From the archives
p. 0276

Random selections
p. 0277

Aerosols of NW India -- A potential Cu source!
p. 0278 | Yadav, Sudesh; Rajamani, V.

Palaeomagnetism of palaeoliquefaction: An aid to palaeoseismology
p. 0280 | Sukhija, B. S.; Rao, G. V. S. Poornachandra; Reddy, D. V.; Kumar, Devender; Rao, J. Mallikharjuna; Lakshmi, K. J. P.; Rao, B. Srinivasa

Reproductive mode in the shrub frog Philautus glandulosus (Jerdon, 1853) (Anura: Rhacophoridae)
p. 0283 | Biju, S. D.

Mathematics -- Its place and role in our society
p. 0285 | Raghunathan, M. S.

Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography in the molecular diagnosis of gene­tic disorders
p. 0291 | Sivakumaran, Theru A.; Kucheria, Kiran; Oefner, Peter J.

Agricultural biotechnology research in India: Status and policies
p. 0297 | Sharma, Manju; Charak, K. S.; Ramanaiah, T. V.

Global review of commercialized transgenic crops
p. 0303 | James, Clive

Breeding objectives and requirements for producing transgenics for major field crops of India
p. 0310 | Grover, Anil; Pental, Deepak

Genetic engineering of crop plants for insect resistance
p. 0321 | Ranjekar, P. K.; Patankar, Aparna; Gupta, Vidya; Bhatnagar, Raj; Bentur, Jagadish; Kumar, P. Ananda

Strategies for development of fungus-resistant transgenic plants
p. 0330 | Grover, Anita; Gowthaman, R.

Genetic engineering for virus resistance
p. 0341 | Dasgupta, I.; Malathi, V. G.; Mukherjee, S. K.

Addressing abiotic stresses in agriculture through transgenic technology
p. 0355 | Grover, Anil; Aggarwal, Pramod Kumar; Kapoor, Avnish; Katiyar-agarwal, Surekha; Agarwal, Manu; Chandramouli, Anupama

The current status of plant transformation technologies
p. 0368 | Veluthambi, K.; Gupta, Aditya K.; Sharma, Arun

Regeneration and genetic transformation of grain legumes: An overview
p. 0381 | Chandra, Atika; Pental, Deepak

Policy and technological options to deal with India's food surpluses and shortages
p. 0388 | Chand, Ramesh; Pal, Suresh

The Indian seed industry: Its history, current status and future
p. 0399 | Gadwal, V. R.

India's plant variety protection and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
p. 0407 | Sahai, Suman

Transgenics for productive and sustainable agriculture: Some considerations for the deve­lopment of a policy framework
p. 0413 | Pental, Deepak