CONTENTS
Review Article
Plant protein tyrosine phosphatases : An overview
Pooja Vashista, Nidhee Chaudhary and C.B. Sharma…. 207
Animal Sciences
Antifertility effects of Foeniculum vulgare (seeds) on reproductive organs of male albino rats (Rattus norvegicus)
M Agarwal and T. Gehani…. 216
Variation in zooplankton population in two morphologically dissimilar rural lakes of Kashmir Himalayas
A. Wanganeo and R. Wanganeo…. 222
Biodiversity and redescription of the scent less bug genus Liorhyssus Stal (Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) with type species L. hyalin us (F.) from Pakistan and its cladistic relationships
S.A. Rizvi, I Ahmad, M.A. Azmi and K. Akhtar…. 240
Homoeocerus dilatatus Horvath (Hemiptera: Coreidae): A little known unique homoeocerine with a note on its erred association with Indian subregion and cladistic relationships
Rokhsana Perveen and Imtiaz Ahmad…. 246
Environmental Sciences
Concentration of cadmium, lead and zinc and their leaching in municipal solid waste dumping sites at’ Bhubaneswar city (Orissa)
Swati Pattanaik, M. Vikram Reddy and Promod Singh…. 251
Niche width and diversity pattern along an altitudinal gradient in moist temperate forest of Garhwal Himalaya
Seema Semwal, Jaya Rawat and A.B. Bhatt….259
Plant Sciences
Nitrate reductase activity and biomass in Trigonella foenum-gracum as influenced by plant growth regulators
Barnali Dey and Ramesh C. Srivastava…. 265
Investigations on Hornworts (Anthocerotae) of Khasi and Jaintia hills : Meghalaya
A.K. Asthana and Virendra Nath…. 270
Regeneration of semul (Bombax ceiba L) plantlets through somatic· embryogenesis from hypocotyl segments
K. Vaidya and Y.K. Bansal…. 276
Enhanced in-vitro regeneration from cotyledonary node explants of Tecomella undulata (Smith) ‘Seem.
Mohammad Aslam, Rajio Singh, ,P.S Negi, D.S. Bhakuni and S C. Das…. 281
Production and partial characterization of cellulases by two Bacillus. spp on pretreated lignocellulosics
Ashish Vyas…. 286