CONTENTS

Animal Sciences

Clenbuterol induced changes in rat gastrocnemius muscle after oral and intraperitoneal administration

Sushma Sharma and Nikhlesh Thakur 1

Evaluation of azadirachtin against red beetle, Tricliona picea Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a major pest of primary food plants of tropical tasar silkworm

S.P. Sharma*, Ram Kishore, S.N. Sinhadeo and V. Kulshrestha 9

Length-weight relationship of freshwater spiny eel, Mastacembelus armatus (Lacepede) from Aligarh region, Uttar Pradesh, India

M. Serajuddin 13

Agricultural Sciences

A study on degradation studies of three carbamate pesticides in soils of Aligarh district as influenced by temperature, water content, concentration of FYM, nitrogen and pesticide

O.P. Bansal 19

Impact of artificial showering on erosion of soil, water and nutrients under vegetated and bare conditions on the slopes around railway track

Shivi Kapoor and M.P. Singh 29

Determination of critical injury level of leafhopper, Empoasca fabae (Harris) and its management

Ram Kishore, B.P. Singh and S.B.S. Parihar 37

Plant Sciences

The ecological studies on bryophytes, growing on the bank of polluted river Sai (Rae-Bareli) India

Meenakshi Singh, Virendra Nath and Adarsh Kumar 41

Production and partial characterization of cellulases by two Aspergillus spp on pretreated low value lignocelluloses

Ashish Vyas, Ashish Jain, Deepak Vyas and K.M. Vyas 51

Diversity of extremely halophilic Archaea isolated from salterns around Bhavnagar

Kena P. Anshuman and B.P. Dave 59

Plasmid mediated transfer of antibiotic resistance and heavy metal tolerance in microorganisms isolated from radish (Raphanus sativus)

Shahid Ali Siddiqui, Amit Chattree, Moinuddin Ansari, A.K. Gupta and P.W. Ramteke 65