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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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