In this issue
p. 0623

The seeds of terror
p. 0625 | Balaram, P.

Science - Big, small and beautiful
p. 0627 | Krishnaswamy, P. R.

Publish in Indian journals
p. 0627 | Goel, R. D.

Appointment of Vice-Chancellors in universities
p. 0628 | Virk, H. S.

Role of funding agencies for the betterment of taxonomy
p. 0629 | Dharmapalan, Biju

EERC and closure of Earthquake Division of GSI
p. 0629 | Barthwal, Brijesh

Bandwagon science in India
p. 0630 | Sikka, S. K.

The mill tailings of Kolar gold mines
p. 0631 | Subbaraman, J. V.

The mill tailings of Kolar gold mines(Reply)
p. 0632 | Krishna, B. R.; Gejji, F. H.

Musical notes from a veena
p. 0633 | Rao, P. P.

Medical journals for free
p. 0635

Plant biodiversity and its conservation
p. 0637 | Dargan, J. S.; Sarma, T. A.

Indo-French workshop on climate and environment
p. 0638 | Goswami, P.; Devasena, C. K.; Sadourny, R.

New perspectives in cancer diagnosis and treatment by gene profiling
p. 0641 | Patel, Hina; Sinha, Pradip

From the archives
p. 0644

Use of the fungus Beauvera bassiana (Bals. ) Vuill (Moniliales: Deuteromycetes) for controlling termites
p. 0645 | Padmaja, V.; Kaur, Gurvinder

Monsoon onset-2000 monitored using multi-frequency microwave radiometer on-board Oceansat-1
p. 0647 | Simon, B.; Joshi, P. C.; Thapliyal, P. K.; Pal, P. K.; Sarkar, Abhijit; Bhatia, R. C.; Jain, R. K.; Singh, Devendra; Mukherjee, S. K.; Gupta, H. V.

A note on the plankton from Barren Island region, Andamans
p. 0651 | Eashwar, M.; Kuberaraj, K.; Nallathambi, T.; Govindarajan, G.

GM crops: Rationally irresistible
p. 0655 | Ghosh, Syamal Krishna

Indian MST radar - Mesospheric studies
p. 0661 | Datta, Jayati; Chakravarty, S. C.; Prasad, B. S. N.

Alpha-terthienyl - A plant-derived new generation insecticide
p. 0667 | Nivsarkar, Manish; Cherian, Bapu; Padh, Harish

Isolation of siderophore-producing strains of Rhizobium meliloti and their biocontrol potential against Macrophomina phaseolina that causes charcoal rot of groundnut
p. 0673 | Arora, N. K.; Kang, S. C.; Maheshwari, D. K.

Role of structural requirements in web-site selection in Cyrtophora cicatrosa Stoliczka (Araneae: Araneidae)
p. 0678 | Rao, Dinesh; Poyyamoli, G.

Restriction of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism leads to suppression of photosynthetic carbon assimilation but not of photochemical electron transport in pea mesophyll protoplasts
p. 0680 | Padmasree, K.; Raghavendra, A. S.

Respiratory enzyme activities in the oxygen-deficient waters of the Arabian Sea
p. 0684 | Shailaja, M. S.

Differential expression of a unique protein by intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
p. 0689 | Narayanan, Sujatha; Vishwanath, V.; Narayanan, P. R.

Courtship, mating and egg-laying in Tylototriton verrucosus from the Darjeeling district of the Eastern Himalaya
p. 0693 | Roy, Debjani; Mushahidunnabi, Md.

Middle Cretaceous carbonate build-ups and volcanic seamount in the Shyok suture, Northern Ladakh, India
p. 0695 | Upadhyay, Rajeev

Errata
p. 0699

T. Radhakrishnan Menon
p. 0700 | Iyer, B. V.

Search for ancient Indian records of the sighting of supernovae
p. 0701 | Narlikar, Jayant V.; Bhate, Saroja

The Coming of Materials Science
p. 0706 | Rao, P. Rama

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2001
p. 0711 | Padmanaban, G.

CENTRE FOR SPONSORED SCHEMES AND PROJECTS
p. 0713

CENTRE FOR BIOCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
p. 0714

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
p. 0716

CORE AND VISITING FACULTY POSITIONS IN ENVIRONMENT-DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
p. 0716

SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
p. 0717

Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
p. 0717

INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE
p. 0718

CSIR
p. 0719

National Institute of Oceanography
p. 0719

Department of Science & Technology
p. 0720

National Bioscience Awards for Career Development: 2001-2002
p. 0721

Poetry in Science
p. 0723

Fourth National Symposium in Chemistry
p. 0723

Centre for Ecological Sciences-Methods in Behavioural Ecology
p. 0724

Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University), Howrah 711 103
p. 0726