Vol. 76, B, Part II ( April to June ) 2006

CONTENTS

Lead Article

Professor Panchanan Maheshwari FRS-The celebrated Karmayogi (1904-1966)

N S Rangaswamy… 99

Animal Sciences

Risk factors for gall bladder cancer – A function of diet and tobacco consumption

           Kavita S. Agarwal, Poonam C. Mittal, Alok Kumar Misra and Rupa Singh … 116

Fluoride toxicity on reproductive organs of male and female albino rats

           J.D. Sharma, M Solanki and D. Solanki … 123

Cytogenetic investigation of two species of Lizards viz. Hemidactylus flaviviridis and Hemidactylus brooki (Family-Gekkonidae)

           O.P. Sharma and Gurpreet Kour … 133

Population dynamics of Hanuman langur, Semnopithecus entellus around Jodhpur (India) during 1995-2001

Lal Singh Rajpurohit, Ani! Kumar Chhangani and Surendra Mal Mohnot… 141

Studies on early weaning and weaner diets on the performance of pigs

R.N Singh, S.K. Singh, B.D. Sharma and Basant Kumar…148

Plant Sciences

Pharmacognostic evaluation· of Curcuma amada Roxb.

           Sharad Srivastava, M Srivastava, A.K.S. Rawat and Shanta Mehrotra … 153

Morpho-anatomical observations on the root and stolon borne scaly tubers in Nephrolepis auriculata (L.) Trimen from Sikkim and Darjeeling Himalayas, India

           Ashalata D’Rozario, Subir Bera and R. Mukhopadhyay … 161

Intraspecific variation among three isolates of Syncephalastrum racemosum in production of pectin lyases

           K. Jagdish Babu and SM Reddy … 165

Optimization of apple pomace based medium and fermentation conditions for pigment production by Rhodotorula species

V.K. Joshi and Devender Attri…171

The impact of insect pollination on seed yield of Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek

Abhishek Rajpurohit and Rajiv K. Gupta…178

Harnessing Dewghat forest biodiversity for medicinal uses

Chandra Prakash Shukla…182

Structure and composition of woody vegetation along the altitudinal and human use gradients in Great Himalayan National Park, North-western Himalaya

           G.S. Rawat and S.K. Singh … 194

Short Note

TLC and HPTLC screening of callus and in vivo materials of Boerhavia diffusa and Phyllanthus fraternus for phytosterols

           Monika Christian, Zankhana Rathod and O.P. Saxena… 203