CONTENTS
Lead Articles
RNA polymerase II and eukaryotic transcription : The 2006 Noble Prize in Chemistry
P.K. Gupta…1
Review Article
Plant metabolomics – An overview
B.S. Sekhon and Sucheta Sharma… 11
Animal Sciences
Occurrence of fatty outgrowth from lips in the Indian leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros lankadiva lankadiva (Kelaart)
Nisar A. Khan and K.B. Karim… 26
Histoarchitecuture of x-organ-sinus gland complex of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium gangeticum
Akhilsh Kumar Gupta and D. Roy… 35
Dissection of courtship behaviour elements in a few members of the nasuta-albomicans complex of Drosophila
Shilpa M.C. and H.A. Ranganath… 40
Detrimental effect of fungicides on Spilarctia obliqua (Walker) (Lepidoptera : Arctiidae)
Garima Gupta, A.K. Bhattacharya and Shri Ram…. 53
Environmental Sciences
Lichens as bioindicators : chemometerical classification of biomonitoring analytical data for heavy metals
S.K. Katiyar and Rachna Katiyar…. 65
Effect of seed treatment and nursery application of certain insecticides against yellow stem borero n semi deep water rice
S.S. Prasad, P.K. Gupta and B.L. Kanaujia…. 73
Microbiology
Efficacy of microbial inoculants for improving the performance of Sesamum
S.S. Kehri, Sudhir Chandra, Varun Khare and H.K. Kehri… 77
Microbial flora of gut of Antarctic skua
Pramod W. Ramteke and M. Kuddus….84
Plant Sciences
Cyto-morphology based basal and sub-basal level evolutionary relationship among Isoetes L. species with special reference to Indian taxa
P.K. Shukla, G.K. Srivastava, S.K. Shukla and S.K. Singh…. 88
Antifungal potential of polyalthia longifolia Benth. & Hook leaves
Tripta Jain and Kanika Sharma…. 105