Vol. 76, B, Part III (July to September ) 2006

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