CONTENTS
Editors’ Page
Science & Technology Development and Policy Issue
Diversity and economic importance of living Gymnosperms in India
R.C. Srivastava…75
Short Research Communications
Effect of amino acids in somatic embryogenesis and regeneration from callus cultures of Cucumis melo L.
Md.Mustafa and B. Mallaiah …85
Distribution patterns and diversity of epiphytic fungi on Avicennia marina at Bhavnagar coast, Gulf of Cambay
Anjana K. Vala, S.Y. Vaidya, B.P. Dave and H.C. Dube…89
Biosurfactant production by marine bacteia
Gopalakrishnan, Anita Suresh Kumar, Kalpana Mody and Bhavanath Jha …95
Enrichment of sewage irrigated soil profiles with heavy metals in Allahabad region, U.P., India
Dinesh Mani and Chitranjan Kumar…103
On the ratio of t and Laplace random variables
Saalees Nadaraja and Samuel Kotz…111
Products of random variables with Bessel kernel
Saalees Nadaraja and Samuel Kotz…117
High temperature superconductivity in Pd-[H(D)]x system
K.P. Sinha…125
A report on hatching of a ‘three-tailed’ earthworm (Polypheretima elongata) from India
P.S. Chaudhuri and Gautam Bhattacharjee…131
PTU-induced neonatal hypothyroidism modulates antioxidative status and population of rat testicular germ cells
Dipak K. Sahoo, Anita Roy and G.B.N. Chainy…133
Academy News
A Report on the 75th Annual Session of the National Academy of Sciences, India
…137
A Report on Science Communication Activities held between January – February 2006
…141