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SUBSCVISSN: 0011-3891
euiiHTsiiiiiiaVolume 120 Number 6 25 March 2021
970 In this issue
GUEST EDITORIAL
971 The case for hydrogen economyGanapati D. Yadav
CORRESPONDENCE
973 Satish Dhawan, Jai P. Singh ■
Chatterji; Response by Anitha Kurup
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974 Identifying gifted children, Dipankar
NEWS
975 Current Science Reports ■ 979 Climate change awareness and resiliencebuilding among rural women in the Himalaya, India, Sumit Rai, Jagdish Chandra
Kuniyal, Mithilesh Singh and Kapil Kesarwani
GENERAL ARTICLES
981 New farm Acts, 2020: rationale and challengesS. K. Srivastava and Raka Saxena
989 Potential of underutilized wild crops in Koraput, Odisha, India for improvingnutritional security and promoting climate resilienceDebabrata Panda and Sharat Kumar Palita
997 Specimens of William Roxburgh in the Central National Herbarium at the A.J.C.Rose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah
Henry John Noltie, Anand Kumar, Kumar Avinash Bharati, Avishek Bhattacharjee andGopal Krishna
1007 Soil erosion and policy initiatives in IndiaDebashis Mandal and Nishita Giri
1012 Corrigendum: Climate change, cryosphere and impacts in the Indian HimalayanRegion
A. P. Dimri, S. Alien, C. Huggel, S. Mai, J. A. Ballesteros-Canovas, M. Rohrer, A.Shukla, P. Tiwari, P. Maharana, T. Bolch, R. J. Thayyen, M. Stoffel and AayushiPandey[Curr. Sci., 2021, 120(5), 774-790]
REV lEW ARTICLE
1013 Microbial bioremediation of heavy metals
Amanso Tayang and L. S. Songachan
RESEARCH ARTICLES
INSAT-3DR-rapid scan operations for weather monitoring over IndiaM. Mohapatra, A. K. Mitra, Virendra Singh, S. K. Mukherjee, Kavita Navria,Vikram Prashar, Ashish Tyagi, Atul Kumar Verma, Sunitha Devi, V. S. Prasad,Mudumba Ramesh and Raj Kumar
1035 Allelopathic potential and allelochemicals in different intercrops for weedmanagement in rainfed cotton
Pc>i)|a Verma. D Blaise. J Annie Sheeba and A Manikandan
fURRFNT SCiFNC'F. VOl 120. NO ft. 2.S MARCH 2021
1040 Prediction of potential drng targets for cutaneous leishmaniasis by Leishmaniamajor and Leishmania tropica: a quantitative proteomics and bioinformaticsapproachNasrin Amiri-Dashatan, Marzieh Ashrafmansouri, Mostafa Rezaei-Tavirani, Mehdi
Koushki and Nayebali Ahmadi
1050 Does plant root architecture respond to potassium under water stress? A casefrom rice seedling root responsesDipika S. Patel, Bardhan Kirti, P. Patel Dhiraji, Parekh Vipulkumar, Jena Suchismita,V. Narwade Ajay and N. Chhatrola Harshadkumar
1057 Endemic Philippine teak {Tectona philippinensis Benth. & Hook, f.) and associatedflora in the coastal landscapes of Verde Island Passage, Luzon Island, PhilippinesAnacleto M. Caringal, Inocencio E. Buot, Jr and Elaine Loreen C. Villanueva
1066 Origin and source characterization of methane in the shallow-water environmentof Southern Lake Tanganyika Rift Basin, TanzaniaJanuarius Matata Bishanga and Jin Qiang
1074 Ground motion prediction equation for earthquakes along the Western Himalayanarc
Srinagesh, S. K. Singh, D. Arroyo, D. Srinivas, G. Suresh and G. Suresh
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
1083 Biomass accumulation and carbon stock in different agroforestry systemsprevalent in the Himalayan foothills, IndiaAmit Kumar, Salil Tewari, Hukum Singh, Parmanand Kumar, Narendra Kumar,Sarita Bisht, Suruchi Devi, Nidhi and Rajesh Kaushal
1088 BDNF protects photoreceptors from light-induced oxidative stress throughupregulating CERKL in vitroQianwen He, Juan Yang, Mengting Gao and Yinxian Wen
1092 Development of vulnerability framework for assessing the air pollution-relatedhealth impacts in four districts of Delhi, IndiaAnoop Raj Singh and Neha Oli
BOOK REVIEWS
1099 Conceptual Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Ecology. Laurence Mueller; reviewed byAmitabh Joshi ■ 1100 Fifty Years in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. M.D. Nair; reviewed by Madhu Dikshit ■ 1101 Perennial Grasses for Bioenergyand Bioproducts: Production Uses, Sustainability and Markets for Giant Reed,Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Reed Canary Grass and Bamboo. Efthymia Alexopoulou(ed.); reviewed by Kripal Singh
PERSONAL NEWS
1102 Paul Josef Crutzen (1933-2021), Vinayak Sinha
HISTORIC AL NOTES
1107 Hidden treasures of the past, Sanjeev Dhurandhar
COVER. Mass flowering of the Philippine teak {Tectona philippinensis Benth &Hook. f.), a threatened plant species growing in the coastal landscapes along VerdeIsland Passage in the Philippines. See page 1057.
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