In this issue
p. 0754

Science and Technology Proficience: China and India
p. 0755 | Balaram, P.

Antarctic bacteria in biofilm
p. 0757 | Chattopadhyay, M. K.

Leaf protein - a safe cattle-feed supplement
p. 0757 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

Literary inadequacies
p. 0757 | Nagarajan, K.

Bt cotton in India
p. 0758 | Zhang, Bao-hong; Wang, Qin-lian; Wang, Kun-bo; Zhou, Dayun; Liu, Fang

Palaeomagnetic dating of Sankra dyke swarm
p. 0760 | Kochhar, Naresh

Palaeomagnetic dating of Sankra dyke swarm(Reply)
p. 0760 | Rao, G. V. S. Poornachandra; Singh, S. B.; Lakshmi, K. J. Prasanna

Rajasaurus narmadaensis
p. 0761 | Mathur, U. B.

Mechanisms of memory-In dialogue with Susumu Tonegawa
p. 0763 | Dhawan, Saurabh; Syal, Supriya

Natural resources management, environment and employment
p. 0766 | Aswathanarayana, U.

From the archives
p. 0767

Indian science slows down: The decline of open-ended research
p. 0768 | Prathap, Gangan

Fusarium pallidoroseum for management of water hyacinth
p. 0770 | Naseema, A.; Praveena, R.; Nair, R. Reji; Peethambaran, C. K.

Axillary shoot production in micropro­pagated date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
p. 0771 | Sudhersan, C.; El-nil, M. Abo

Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya, India
p. 0774 | Rai, Jyotsana; Upadhyay, Rajeev; Sinha, Anshu K.

Development of hybrid Bt cotton in China - A successful integration of transgenic technology and conventional techniques
p. 0778 | Dong, Hezhong; Li, Weijiang; Tang, Wei; Zhang, Dongmei

India and the common heritage concept in the international seabed area
p. 0783 | Kumar, B. Vijay

Ayurveda and natural products drug discovery
p. 0789 | Patwardhan, Bhushan; Vaidya, Ashok D. B.; Chorghade, Mukund

Insect defence: its impact on microbial control of insect pests
p. 0800 | Narayanan, K.

Photoinduced phase transitions in liquid crystalline systems
p. 0815 | Prasad, S. Krishna; Nair, Geetha G.; Sandhya, K. L.; Rao, D. S. Shankar

Genetic diversity among spatially isolated populations of Eurya nitida Korth. (Theaceae) based on inter-simple sequence repeats
p. 0824 | Bahulikar, R. A.; Lagu, M. D.; Kulkarni, B. G.; Pandit, S. S.; Suresh, H. S.; Rao, M. K. V.; Ranjekar, P. K.; Gupta, V. S.

Development of hard magnetic bulk amorphous alloys
p. 0832 | Ram, S.

IR carbonyl band intensity studies in N,N-dimethyl formamide and N,N-dimethyl acetamide on complex formation with phenols
p. 0838 | Malathi, M.; Sabesan, R.; Krishnan, S.

Bioinformatic analysis of the SARS virus X1 protein shows it to be a calcium-binding protein
p. 0842 | Singh, Abhishek Narain; Gupta, Dinesh; Jameel, Shahid

Yellow mosaic virus infecting soybean in northern India is distinct from the species infecting soybean in southern and western India
p. 0845 | Usharani, K. S.; Surendranath, B.; Haq, Q. M. R.; Malathi, V. G.

Composite genetic structure of rice land races revealed by STMS markers
p. 0850 | Kohli, Sudha; Mohapatra, T.; Das, S. R.; Singh, A. K.; Tandon, V.; Sharma, R. P.

Arsenic trioxide generates oxidative stress and islet cell toxicity in rabbit
p. 0854 | Mukherjee, S.; Das, D.; Darbar, S.; Mukherjee, M.; Das, A. S.; Mitra, C.

Ontogenetic isotopic variation in foraminifera - Implications for palaeo proxy
p. 0858 | Saraswati, Pratul Kumar

Large-wavelength gravity anomalies over the Indian continent: Indicators of lithospheric flexure and uplift and subsidence of Indian Peninsular Shield related to isostasy
p. 0861 | Mishra, D. C.; Laxman, G.; Arora, K.

Modern Algebra and the Rise of Mathematical Structures by Leo Corry
p. 0868 | Sridharan, R.

The Tests of Time - Readings in the Development of Physical Theory by L. M. Dolling, A. F. Gianelli and G. N. Statile
p. 0868 | Vishveshwara, C. V.

Indo-French Networking Research Programme under Indo-French Programme of Cooperation in Science and Technology
p. 0870

Department of Science and Technology
p. 0873

National Centre for Biological Sciences
p. 0875

THE INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS ASSOCIATION YOUNG SCIENTISTS AWARD PROGRAMME: 2004-2005
p. 0876

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY (IIBAT)
p. 0877

THE INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR AWARDS: 2004-2005
p. 0877

BANGALORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
p. 0878

THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
p. 0878

CENTRE FOR MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (C-MET)
p. 0879

M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara
p. 0879

Central Institute of Fisheries Education
p. 0880

B. M. BIRLA SCIENCE PRIZES
p. 0880