Current Science
A Fortnightly Journal of Research
ISSN 0011-3891
Volume 96 - Issue 07: 10 Apr, 2009
In this Issue
In this issue
p. 0872

Editorial
IITs: Two Histories
p. 0873 | Balaram, P.

Correspondence
Science means jobs - on the necessity of planning reliability in science
p. 0875 | Carbon, Claus-Christian

Threatened wild medicinal plants: who cares?
p. 0875 | Soni, Vineet

Smaller model genome for monocots - Brachypodium distachyon
p. 0876 | RATHORE, M. S.; Shekhawat, N. S.

Naming angiosperm fossils from Miocene and younger rocks
p. 0876 | Maheshwari, Hari Krsna

Non-persistent mudbanks off Kerala coast
p. 0877 | Jayaprakash, C.; Dinesh, A. C.

Mangroves of Maharashtra: a fast disappearing asset
p. 0878 | Kulkarni, Narendra A.

Background radiation: no evidence of ill effects
p. 0878 | Parthasarathy, K. S.

News
Reintroduction of Hubbardia heptaneuron Bor, a critically endangered endemic grass in Western Ghats
p. 0880 | Yadav, S. R.; Chandore, A. N.; Nimbalkar, M. S.; Gurav, R. V.

New understanding may help fight drug-resistant bacteria
p. 0881 | Rajput, Abhay S. D.

Meeting Report
Mechanochemistry and mechanical alloying
p. 0881 | Mukhopadhyay, N. K.

Biocultural knowledge and Adi community: conservation and sustainability in biodiversity hotspot of Arunachal Pradesh
p. 0883 | Singh, Ranjay K.; Srivastava, R. C.

Research News
Recent insights into deep mantle mineralogy
p. 0884 | Sankaran, A. V.

Commentary
Reclamation and reuse of treated municipal wastewater: an option to mitigate water stress
p. 0886 | Kumar, Manish

Scientific Correspondence
Molecular identification and characterization of citrus greening bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus associated with decline of Nagpur mandarin orange in Vidarbha region, Maharashtra
p. 0890 | Das, A. K.

Gut content analysis of spiders in coffee ecosystem
p. 0892 | Kumar, C. M. Senthil; Regupathy, A.

IRS data analysis in Longmenshan Mountain Range, China after the earthquake of May 2008
p. 0894 | Kumar, K. Vinod; Guha, Arindam; Roy, P. S.

Effect of acidification in water samples before and after filtration: a caution for hydro-geochemical studies
p. 0896 | Khanna, P. P.; Ahmad, T.; Islam, R.

General Articles
Intellectual property fuels a global sense of competitiveness
p. 0898 | Bera, Rajendra K.

The biodiversity of Krem Mawkhyrdop of Meghalaya, India, on the verge of extinction
p. 0904 | Biswas, Jayant

Review Articles
Basic wind speed map of India with long-term hourly wind data
p. 0911 | Lakshmanan, N.; Gomathinayagam, S.; Harikrishna, P.; Abraham, A.; Ganapathi, S. Chitra

Research Account
Combination of self-assembly and nanolithography as an effective nanofabrication methodology for device realization
p. 0923 | Chowdhury, Devasish

Research Articles
Forecasting groundwater level using artificial neural networks
p. 0933 | Sreekanth, P. D.; Geethanjali, N.; Sreedevi, P. D.; Ahmed, Shakeel; Kumar, N. Ravi; Jayanthi, P. D. Kamala

Rayleigh scattering technique as a method to study protein-protein interaction using spectrofluorimeters
p. 0940 | Brahma, Amrita; De, Debashree; Bhattacharyya, Debasish

Filtering techniques for quantifying tidal impacts on groundwater: a comparative analysis
p. 0947 | Namgial, Deldan; Jha, Madan K.

Research Communications
Magnetotactic bacteria from Lonar lake
p. 0957 | Chavadar, Mahesh S.; Bajekal, Shyam S.

Karyotype analysis of Persian stone lapper, Garra persica Berg, 1913 (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) from Iran
p. 0959 | Esmaeili, Hamid Reza; Ebrahimi, Mehrgan; Ansari, Talat H.; Teimory, Azad; Gholamhosseini, Ghorbanali

In vitro micropropagation of Bambusa balcooa Roxb. through nodal explants from field-grown culms and scope for upscaling
p. 0962 | Mudoi, Kalpataru Dutta; Borthakur, Mina

First record of the Recent-subRecent diatomaceous earth from the Gangetic alluvial floodplains of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
p. 0967 | De, Chandrav; Bhattacharyya, Sohinee

High-Al chromian spinel in peridotites of Manipur Ophiolite Complex, Indo-Myanmar Orogenic Belt: implication for petrogenesis and geotectonic setting
p. 0973 | Singh, Athokpam Krishnakanta

Fluoride contamination in groundwaters of Sonbhadra District, Uttar Pradesh, India
p. 0979 | Raju, N. Janardhana; Dey, Sangita; Das, Kaushik

Late Holocene uplift in the lower Narmada basin, western India
p. 0985 | Raj, Rachna; Yadava, M. G.

Book Reviews
Quantum Computing without Magic Devices by Zdzislaw Meglicki
p. 0989 | Kumar, Anil

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2008 by Susan Gottesman and Caroline S. Harwood (eds)
p. 0990 | Dharmalingam, K.

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2008 by Aravinda Chakravarti and Eric Green (eds)
p. 0991 | Mukerji, Mitali; Mukhopadhyay, Arijit

The Development and Regulation of Bt Brinjal in India (Eggplant/Aubergine) by B. Choudhary and K. Gaur
p. 0992 | Manjunath, T. M.

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