Effect of Soil Amendments and Land Use Systems on Surface Cracks, Soil Properties and Crop Yield in a Vertisol - J. Somasundaram; R. K. Singh; S. N. Prasad; Ashok Kumar; Shakir Ali; N. K. Sinha; R. S. Chaudhary; M. Mohanty; B. L. Lakaria; M. Sankar; Rattan Lal (Agricultural Research, 2018)

Prediction of porosity of food materials during drying: Current challenges and directions - Mohammad U. H. Joardder; C. Kumar; M. A. Karim (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2018)

Performance of tire chips–gravel combinations with nonwoven geotextile and encapsulated tire chips layers used as filter/separator under incremental stress levels - M. K. Kaushik; Arvind Kumar; Ajay Bansal (European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2018)

Estimation of carbon stock for greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower reservoirs - Amit Kumar; M. P. Sharma; Tao Yang (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2018)

On the rainfall asymmetry and distribution in tropical cyclones over Bay of Bengal using TMPA and GPM rainfall products - Manoj Kumar Thakur; T. V. Lakshmi Kumar; Sanjeev Dwivedi; M. S. Narayanan (Natural Hazards, 2018)

Health risk assessment of heavy metals in crop grains grown on open soils of Kanwar wetland, India - Ajeet Kumar Singh; M. Sathya; Satyam Verma; S. Jayakumar (Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, 2018)

Optimization of Reservoir Operation with a New Approach in Evolutionary Computation Using TLBO Algorithm and Jaya Algorithm - Vijendra Kumar; S. M. Yadav (Water Resources Management, 2018)

Human Neural Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles Improve Tissue and Functional Recovery in the Murine Thromboembolic Stroke Model - Robin L. Webb; Erin E. Kaiser; Shelley L. Scoville; Tyler A. Thompson; Sumbul Fatima; Chirayukumar Pandya; Karishma Sriram; Raymond L. Swetenburg; Kumar Vaibhav; Ali S. Arbab; Babak Baban; Krishnan M. Dhandapani; et al. (Translational Stroke Research, 2018)

How accurate are satellite estimates of precipitation over the north Indian Ocean? - Satya Prakash; M. R. Ramesh Kumar; Simi Mathew; R. Venkatesan (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2018)

Whole exome sequencing of breast cancer (TNBC) cases from India: association of MSH6 and BRIP1 variants with TNBC risk and oxidative DNA damage - M. Aravind Kumar; Shaik Mohammad Naushad; Narasimhulu Narasimgu; S. Nagaraju Naik; Srilatha Kadali; Uday Shanker; M. Lakshmi Narasu (Molecular Biology Reports, 2018)

Genome size estimation of brackishwater fishes and penaeid shrimps by flow cytometry - A. Swathi; M. S. Shekhar; Vinaya Kumar Katneni; K. K. Vijayan (Molecular Biology Reports, 2018)

Anxiolytic actions of Nardostachys jatamansi via GABA benzodiazepine channel complex mechanism and its biodistribution studies - Sakina Razack; Hemanth Kumar Kandikattu; M. P. Venuprasad; Narayanappa Amruta; Farhath Khanum; Krishna Chuttani; Anil Kumar Mishra (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2018)

Improvement of blast resistance of the popular high-yielding, medium slender-grain type, bacterial blight resistant rice variety, Improved Samba Mahsuri by marker-assisted breeding - G. Rekha; V. Abhilash Kumar; B. C. Viraktamath; K. Pranathi; M. B. V. N. Kousik; B. Laxmi Prasanna; C. Backiyalakshmi; Pragya Sinha; R. K. Ravindra; S. Bhaskar; S. K. Hajira; C. H. Balachiranjeevi; et al. (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2018)

The role of T regulatory cell-associated markers in monitoring tuberculosis treatment completion and failure - Sonali Agrawal; Om Parkash; Alangudi Natarajan Palaniappan; Ashok K. Bhatia; Santosh Kumar; Devendra S. Chauhan; M. Madhan Kumar (Immunologic Research, 2018)

Interrogation of a longitudinal, national pharmacy claims dataset to explore factors that predict the need for add-on therapy in older and socioeconomically disadvantaged Australians with type 2 diabetes mellitus patients (T2DM) - S. S. Kumar; H. McManus; T. Radovich; J. R. Greenfield; A. Viardot; K. M. Williams; P. Cronin; R. O. Day (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2018)

Morphological and molecular characterization of Paramphistomum epiclitum of small ruminants - Mehul M. Jadav; Niranjan Kumar; Bhupamani Das; Jaesh B. Solanki (Acta Parasitologica, 2018)
Morphological and molecular identification can pave the way to design the most effective control measures against the Paramphistomum epiclitum in small ruminants. Morphology of the flukes had described the features of Paramphistomum genus. Body was conical with concave ventral and convex dorsal surface, tegumental spines all around the body in the immature stage, terminal funnel shape oral sucker, sub-terminal acetabulum, blind caeca with a serpentine course touching the anterior level of the acetabulum. Vitelline glands were at the lateral margins of the body extended from the pharynx to the posterior sucker. Testes were lobed and tandem, wavy post-testicular uterus and genital pore behind intestinal bifurcation. Sequence analyses of internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-2+ (PCR products of approximately 500 bp) of 10 flukes yielded 2 genotypes, Navsari isolate 1 and 2. In BLAST analysis, ITS-2+ genotypes were 97.3–99% similar with published sequences (KF564870, JF834888, KF642983 and JX678254) of P . epiclitum of Paramphistomatidae. Two genotypes depicted 4 single nucleotide polymorphisms (NPs) in the form of transitions (C-T at 10 and 18; G-A at 255; A-G at 367 locus), 1 triple NPs (CGT-GAA between 21–23 loci) and missing A base at codon 40 in the genotype 1. Average AT and GC content was 49.61% and 50.38%, respectively. Trees topology inferred by Neighbor Joining and Maximum Likelihood methods of ITS2+ of trematodes were similar, with small difference of bootstrap values. Navsari genotypes formed a tight cluster with the P . epiclitum , originated from different location with high bootstrap value and 0.004–0.011 estimated evolutionary divergence.

Cytological and immunocytological detection and differentiation of Marek’s disease and lymphoid leucosis in poultry - M. Asok Kumar; M. Palanivelu; R. Barathidasan; Deepak Kumar; S. D. Singh; Shyma K. Lateef; Rajendra Singh; K. Dhama (VirusDisease, 2018)

Assessment of heavy metal contamination in water of Kali River using principle component and cluster analysis, India - Saurabh Mishra; Amit Kumar; Silpa Yadav; M. K. Singhal (Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2018)

Assessing the restoration time of surface water and groundwater systems under groundwater pumping - S. B. Seo; G. Mahinthakumar; A. Sankarasubramanian; M. Kumar (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2018)

Optimal Conditions for the Treatment of Shrimp Culture Effluent Using Immobilized Marine Microalga Picochlorum maculatum (PSDK01) - S. Dinesh Kumar; P. Santhanam; P. Prabhavathi; B. Kanimozhi; M. Abirami; Min S. Park; Mi-Kyung Kim (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

Direct somatic embryogenesis of potato [Solanum tuberosum (L.)] cultivar ‘Kufri Chipsona 2’ - Amanpreet Kaur; M. Sudhakara Reddy; Anil Kumar (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2018)

The vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase gene (SbVPPase) from the Sorghum bicolor confers salt tolerance in transgenic Brahmi [Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell] - M. L. Ahire; S. Anil Kumar; D. L. Punita; P. S. Mundada; P. B. Kavi Kishor; T. D. Nikam (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2018)

Regional Groundwater Assessment of Krishna River Basin Using Integrated GIS Approach - P. Harini; Dinesh Kumar Sahadevan; I. C. Das; C. Manikyamba; M. Durgaprasad; M. J. Nandan (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Structure, mechanical properties and evolution of the lithosphere below the northwest continental margin of India - G. Srinivasa Rao; Manish Kumar; M. Radhakrishna (International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2018)

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of PM10 over Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), adjoining regions and Indo-Himalayan Range (IHR) during a winter 2014 campaign - Avirup Sen; Supriya G. Karapurkar; Mohit Saxena; Damodar M. Shenoy; Abhijit Chaterjee; Anil K. Choudhuri; Trupti Das; Altaf H. Khan; Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal; Srimata Pal; Dharam Pal Singh; Sudhir Kumar Sharma; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Impact of heavy metals and nanoparticles on aquatic biota - Sharanjeet Kaur Kahlon; Gaurav Sharma; J. M. Julka; Amit Kumar; Shweta Sharma; Florian J. Stadler (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2018)

Carbon Storage Declines in Old Boreal Forests Irrespective of Succession Pathway - Bilei Gao; Anthony R. Taylor; Eric B. Searle; Praveen Kumar; Zilong Ma; Alexandra M. Hume; Han Y. H. Chen (Ecosystems, 2018)

Effect of geojute technique on density, diversity and carbon stock of plant species in landslide site of North West Himalaya - Harsh Mehta; Raj Kumar; M. Ayub Dar; G. P. Juyal; Sridhar Patra; Sneha Dobhal; A. C. Rathore; Rajesh Kaushal; P. K. Mishra (Journal of Mountain Science, 2018)

FEG-EPMA mapping and Fe-Ti oxide mineral chemistry of Brahmaputra River sediments in Bangladesh: provenance and petrogenetic implications - A. S. M. Mehedi Hasan; Ismail Hossain; Md. Aminur Rahman; Md. Sazzadur Rahman; Mohammad Nazim Zaman; Pradip Kumar Biswas (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Modelling the Grain Yield of Wheat in Irrigated Saline Environment with Foliar Potassium Fertilization - M. Kumar; A. Sarangi; D. K. Singh; A. R. Rao (Agricultural Research, 2018)

Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Different Origin-Seeded Bioceramic Construct in Regeneration of Bone Defect in Rabbit - Swapan Kumar Maiti; M. U. Shivakumar; Divya Mohan; Naveen Kumar; Karam Pal Singh (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2018)

Spectral Wave Characteristics in the Nearshore Waters of Northwestern Bay of Bengal - M. Anjali Nair; V. Sanil Kumar; M. M. Amrutha (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2018)

Population analysis of Magnaporthe oryzae by using endogenous repetitive DNA sequences and mating-type alleles in different districts of Karnataka, India - D. Jagadeesh; M. K. Prasanna Kumar; N. S. Devaki (Journal of Applied Genetics, 2018)

Removal of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution using immobilized Agrobacterium fabrum biomass along with iron oxide nanoparticles as biosorbent - Swati Sharma; Abshar Hasan; Naveen Kumar; Lalit M. Pandey (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Robust iterative schemes for non-linear poromechanics - Manuel Borregales; Florin A. Radu; Kundan Kumar; Jan M. Nordbotten (Computational Geosciences, 2018)

Exploring potential applications of a novel extracellular polymeric substance synthesizing bacterium (Bacillus licheniformis) isolated from gut contents of earthworm (Metaphire posthuma) in environmental remediation - Jayanta Kumar Biswas; Anurupa Banerjee; Mahendra Kumar Rai; Jörg Rinklebe; Sabry M. Shaheen; Santosh Kumar Sarkar; Madhab Chandra Dash; Anilava Kaviraj; Uwe Langer; Hocheol Song; Meththika Vithanage; Monojit Mondal; et al. (Biodegradation, 2018)

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018 - Gaya K. Amarasinghe; Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos; Ashley C. Banyard; Christopher F. Basler; Sina Bavari; Andrew J. Bennett; Kim R. Blasdell; Thomas Briese; Alexander Bukreyev; Yíngyún Caì; Charles H. Calisher; Cristine Campos Lawson; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2018)

Multivariate statistical analysis approach for prediction of blast-induced ground vibration - Vivek K. Himanshu; M. P. Roy; A. K. Mishra; Ranjit Kumar Paswan; Deepak Panda; P. K. Singh (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018)

Modeling of the strong ground motion of 25th April 2015 Nepal earthquake using modified semi-empirical technique - Sohan Lal; A. Joshi; Sandeep; Monu Tomer; Parveen Kumar; Chun-Hsiang Kuo; Che-Min Lin; Kuo-Liang Wen; M. L. Sharma (Acta Geophysica, 2018)

First record of Metanophrys sinensis (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Scuticociliatida) from India causing large scale mortality in a new host Macrobrachium rosenbergii larvae - P K Sahoo; S Pattanayak; A Paul; M K Sahoo; P Rajesh Kumar; D Panda; B R Pillai (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2018)

Proteomic Changes in Chick Brain Proteome Post Treatment with Lathyrus Sativus Neurotoxin, β-N-Oxalyl-L-α,β-Diaminopropionic Acid (L-ODAP): A Better Insight to Transient Neurolathyrism - Anil D Kumar; Sumathi Natarajan; Nabil A M Bin Omar; Preeti Singh; Rohan Bhimani; Surya Satyanarayana Singh (Toxicological Research, 2018)

First report of coconut case caterpillar, Mahasena corbetti Tams (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) from India - D. M. Firake; G. T. Behere; W. R. Arnscheid; R. Kumar; S. V. Ngachan (Phytoparasitica, 2018)

Future climate change impact evaluation on hydrologic processes in the Bharalu and Basistha basins using SWAT model - Angshuman M. Saharia; Arup Kumar Sarma (Natural Hazards, 2018)

OHC, OMT and TCHP Products with AMSR2 SST - S. K. Sasamal; M. Suresh Kumar; C. V. Rao (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Shifting Cultivation Using Landsat Images: Soft Classification Approach - G. Venkata Rao; Anil Kumar; A. Sentil Kumar; M. Shashi (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Outbreak of tomato wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum in Tamil Nadu, India and elucidation of its genetic relationship using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) - A. Balamurugan; A. Kumar; M. Muthamilan; K. Sakthivel; M. Vibhuti; M. Ashajyothi; N. Sheoran; A. Kamalakannan; A. Shanthi; T. Arumugam (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2018)

Distribution, movements, and survival of the critically endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis in India and Nepal - Rohit R. S. Jha; Jyotendra Jyu Thakuri; Asad R. Rahmani; Maheshwar Dhakal; Ngulkholal Khongsai; Narendra Man Babu Pradhan; Nikhil Shinde; Bridesh Kumar Chauhan; Rahul K. Talegaonkar; Ian P. Barber; Graeme M. Buchanan; Toby H. Galligan; et al. (Journal of Ornithology, 2018)

Delaying of cataract through intervention of Hemidesmus indicus in STZ induced diabetic rats - Prabhakar Tirumani; S. Venu; G. Sridhar; M. Praveen kumar; A. V. Rajashekhar; T. Naga Raju (Natural Product Research, 2018)

Screening Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Order to Select the Best for Alleviating Wilt Disease Complex of Capsicum - M. Raghavendra Kumar; R. Ashwin; D. J. Bagyaraj (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

In vitro Evaluation of Insecticides, Bio-Fungicide and Bio-Fertilizer for Strategic and Eco-Friendly Combinatorial Seed Treatments in Chickpea - Shivaji Hausrao Thube; Gagan Kumar Mahapatro; M. B. Arun Kumar (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

Performance of Crossbred Heifers Supplemented with Linseed Oil, Either Alone or in Combination with Myristic Acid - Rakesh Sheel; S. K. Sirohi; M. S. Mahesh; Brishketu Kumar (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

Quantification of Antioxidant Contents in Sweet Pepper as Influenced by Planting Time and Fruit Picking Stage - Vinod K. Sharma; Chandresh Chandel; Raj Kumar; S. S. Dey; Chander Parkash; Reeta Bhatia; M. Mawliya (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

A Case Study: Heavy Rainfall Event Comparison Between Daily Satellite Rainfall Estimation Products with IMD Gridded Rainfall Over Peninsular India During 2015 Winter Monsoon - Anil Kumar Singh; Virendra Singh; K. K. Singh; Jayant Nath Tripathi; Amit Kumar; Anil Kumar Soni; M. Sateesh; Chinmay Khadke (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2018)

A Spectro-radiometric Analysis of Ocean Colour Sensors and Proposal for a Miniature Hyper Spectral Imager for Future - R. M. Samudraiah Desu; Ashutosh Kumar Jha; Senthil Kumar Arumugam; V. N. Krishna Murthy Yelisetty; Ujjwal Kumar; Kusum Arunachalam (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2018)

Ameliorative Role of Castasterone on Copper Metal Toxicity by Improving Redox Homeostasis in Brassica juncea L. - Poonam Yadav; Ravdeep Kaur; Mukesh Kumar Kanwar; Renu Bhardwaj; Geetika Sirhindi; Leonard Wijaya; M. N. Alyemeni; Parvaiz Ahmad (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2018)

Comparison of earthquake source characteristics in the Kachchh Rift Basin and Saurashtra horst, Deccan Volcanic Province, western India - B Sairam; A P Singh; M Ravi Kumar (Journal of Earth System Science, 2018)

Diapause regulation in Zygogramma bicolorata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a biocontrol agent of Parthenium hysterophorus - Fazil Hasan; M. Shafiq Ansari; Mukesh K. Dhillon; Mohammad Muslim; Amarpal Singh Bhadauriya; Aditya Kumar Tanwar; Salman Ahmad (International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2018)

Nanoscale materials as sorbents for nitrate and phosphate removal from water - T. K. M. Prashantha Kumar; Trivene R. Mandlimath; P. Sangeetha; S. K. Revathi; S. K. Ashok Kumar (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2018)

Mechanosensitive microRNA-181b Regulates Aortic Valve Endothelial Matrix Degradation by Targeting TIMP3 - Jack M. Heath; Joan Fernandez Esmerats; Lucky Khambouneheuang; Sandeep Kumar; Rachel Simmons; Hanjoong Jo (Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, 2018)

A new record of Neobythites multistriatus Nielsen & Quéro, 1991 (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from the Andaman Sea, North Indian Ocean - Thomy Reethas; Chippy Khader; Abhay Deshmukh; B. Kishore Kumar; Sherine Sonia Cubelio; V. N. Sanjeevan; Hashim Manjebrayakath; M. Sudhakar (Marine Biodiversity, 2018)

Evaluation of radiative fluxes over the north Indian Ocean - M. R. Ramesh Kumar; Rachel T. Pinker; Simi Mathew; R. Venkatesan; W. Chen (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2018)

Microarray-based SNP genotyping to identify genetic risk factors of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in South Indian population - M. Aravind Kumar; Vineeta Singh; Shaik Mohammad Naushad; Uday Shanker; M. Lakshmi Narasu (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2018)

Dipeptides as linker for multicomponent presentation—a facile, robust, and high-bioactivity yielding strategy - Honnegowdanahally K. Kumara; Suhas Ramesh; Doddahindaiah M. Suyoga Vardhan; J. Shiva Kumar; Dase Channe Gowda (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2018)

Measuring potassium fractions is not sufficient to assess the long-term impact of fertilization and manuring on soil’s potassium supplying capacity - Debarup Das; Amaresh Kumar Nayak; V. K. Thilagam; Dibyendu Chatterjee; M. Shahid; Rahul Tripathi; S. Mohanty; Anjani Kumar; B. Lal; Priyanka Gautam; B. B. Panda; S. S. Biswas (Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2018)

Pharmaceutical products as emerging contaminant in water: relevance for developing nations and identification of critical compounds for Indian environment - Prakash Chinnaiyan; Santosh G. Thampi; Mathava Kumar; K. M. Mini (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2018)

Pd nanoparticles-embedded carbon nanotube interface for electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol toward DMFC applications - V. Sunil Kumar; M. Satyanarayana; K. Yugender Goud; K. Vengatajalabathy Gobi (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2018)

Metabolism and Nutritive Role of Cholesterol in the Growth, Gonadal Development, and Reproduction of Crustaceans - Vikas Kumar; Amit Kumar Sinha; Nicholas Romano; Kristy M. Allen; Benjamin A. Bowman; Kenneth R. Thompson; James H. Tidwell (Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 2018)

Herd-level risk factors for bovine viral diarrhea infection in cattle of Tamil Nadu - Subbiah Krishna Kumar; K. M. Palanivel; K. Sukumar; B. Samuel Masilamoni Ronald; G. Selvaraju; G. Ponnudurai (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2018)

First Record of the Keeltail Pomfret Taractes rubescens (Jordan & Evermann, 1887) (Teleostei: Perciformes: Bramidae) from the South-Eastern Arabian Sea - Subal Kumar Roul; T. B. Retheesh; A. R. Akhil; D. Prakasan; U. Ganga; E. M. Abdussamad; Prathibha Rohit (Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 2018)

Pedotransfer functions to estimate soil water content at field capacity and permanent wilting point in hot Arid Western India - Priyabrata Santra; Mahesh Kumar; R N Kumawat; D K Painuli; K M Hati; G B M Heuvelink; N H Batjes (Journal of Earth System Science, 2018)

Structural complexity and tree species composition of mangrove forests of the Andaman Islands, India - R. Kiruba-Sankar; P. Krishnan; S. Dam Roy; J. Raymond Jani Angel; M. P. Goutham-Bharathi; K. Lohith Kumar; P. Ragavan; M. Kaliyamoorthy; R. Muruganandam; S. Rajakumari; R. Purvaja; R. Ramesh (Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2018)

Inhibition of proinflammatory pathways by bioactive fraction of Tinospora cordifolia - Jenny Jacob; Bashi M. Babu; Mohind C. Mohan; A. P. Abhimannue; B. Prakash Kumar (Inflammopharmacology, 2018)

Dental anomalies in pediatric patients with familial adenomatous polyposis - Seth Septer; Brenda Bohaty; Robin Onikul; Vandana Kumar; Karen B. Williams; Thomas M. Attard; Craig A. Friesen; Lynn Roosa Friesen (Familial Cancer, 2018)

Standardization of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) Method of Water Management in Lowland Rice ( ORYZA Sativa L.) for Upscaling in Command Outlets - Kishor Mote; V. Praveen Rao; V. Ramulu; K. Avil Kumar; M. Uma Devi (Irrigation and Drainage, 2018)
The experiment was conducted in irrigated lowlands and followed alternate wetting and drying (AWD) practices by using field water tubes. The site had sandy clay soil. Grain yield was 6.0–7.2 t ha −1 with AWD irrigation and 7.5 t ha −1 with continuous submergence irrigation. Non‐significant ( P > 0.05) difference was registered in yield attributes and grain yield between continuous submergence of irrigation and I 5 (AWD irrigation regime of 5 cm submergence depth from 15 DAT (days after transplanting) to physiological maturity when the ponded water level drops to 5 cm below ground level) and I 6 (AWD irrigation regime of 5 cm submergence depth from 15 DAT to physiological maturity when the ponded water level drops to 10 cm below ground level). There was a decrease in yield attributes and grain yield with the I 4 (AWD irrigation regime of 3 cm submergence depth from 15 DAT to physiological maturity when the ponded water level drops to 15 cm below ground level). Of various irrigation regimes, AWD irrigation regimes of I 5 ( 57 900 ha −1 ) and I 6 ( 56 500 ha −1 ) registered higher net returns with a B: C ratio of 1.27 and 1.29, respectively, owing to higher grain yield coupled with lower application of water. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Pathological and molecular studies of the renal trematode Paratanaisia bragai in Indian peafowls (Pavo cristatus) - M. Asok Kumar; Deepak Kumar; Munuswamy Palanivelu; Latchumikanthan Annamalai; Karikalan Mathesh; Rajendra Singh; Anil Kumar Sharma; Kuldeep Dhama (Acta Parasitologica, 2018)
Endoparasitic diseases are commonly encountered in free-ranging birds. Although not all endoparasites cause disease, persistent infection with large numbers of parasites almost always affects normal physiological functions, leading to deleterious effects on the host. This paper describes the anatomopathological alterations caused by the renal trematode Paratanaisia bragai in Indian peafowl (n = 3) and examines the phylogeny of these and related parasites. Peafowl from forests in and around the Bareilly region, Uttar Pradesh, India, were necropsied, and microscopic and molecular investigations were performed. The peafowl were confirmed to be infected with P . bragai . Significant gross pathological lesions suggested nephrosis, and microscopic findings indicated a mild-to-moderate degree of nephrosis caused by the parasites in the tissue. The parasites were identified as P . bragai by histomorphological analysis of adult and eggs in the ureters, and the identification was confirmed by PCR and phylogenetic analysis. Nucleotide sequencing of the PCR products from the renal trematodes recovered from Indian peafowl revealed a close association with P . bragai from Columbiformes in the United Kingdom and Spain. The pathology and molecular epidemiology of parasitic diseases affecting peafowl is not well understood in India. This is the first report from India and the second report worldwide to document P . bragai infection in peafowl.

Multiphase porous media modelling: A novel approach to predicting food processing performance - Md. Imran H. Khan; M. U. H. Joardder; Chandan Kumar; M. A. Karim (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2018)

Correction to: Recommendations for the Development and Validation of Neutralizing Antibody Assays in Support of Biosimilar Assessment - D. Gouty; C. C. Cai; X. Y. Cai; A. Kasinath; V. Kumar; S. Alvandkouhi; J. Yang; S. Pederson; B. Babbitt; D. Peritt; A. Rudy; V. Koppenburg; et al. (The AAPS Journal, 2018)

Physiological and Biochemical Basis of Extended and Sudden Heat Stress Tolerance in Maize - S. K. Yadav; Yogesh Kumar Tiwari; Vikram Singh; Amol A. Patil; A. K. Shanker; N. Jyothi Lakshmi; M. Vanaja; M. Maheswari (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2018)

Auxin enhances grafting success in Carya cathayensis (Chinese hickory) - R. M. Saravana Kumar; Liu Xiao Gao; Hu Wei Yuan; Dong Bin Xu; Zhao Liang; Shen Chen Tao; Wen Bin Guo; Dao Liang Yan; Bing Song Zheng; Johan Edqvist (Planta, 2018)

Over-expression of a grafting-responsive gene from hickory increases abiotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis - R. M. Saravana Kumar; Guocun Ji; Haipeng Guo; Liang Zhao; Bingsong Zheng (Plant Cell Reports, 2018)

Deciphering the Mechanisms of Endophyte-Mediated Biofortification of Fe and Zn in Wheat - Devendra Singh; Neelam Geat; Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat; Mahesh M. Mahajan; Radha Prasanna; Surender Singh; Rajeev Kaushik; Ram Nageena Singh; Kanika Kumar; Anil Kumar Saxena (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2018)

Efficacy of Rinskor™ (florpyrauxifen-benzyl ester) on Herbicide Resistant Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) in Rice Fields of Mekong Delta, Vietnam - Le Duy; Nguyen M. Chon; Richard K. Mann; Bobba V. N. Kumar; Mauricio A. Morell (Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology, 2018)

Effect of prior dengue infection on severity and outcome of Japanese encephalitis - A. Verma; A. Jain; C. Kumar; M. Agarwal; R. Kumar (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2018)

Applications of nanocomposite hydrogels for biomedical engineering and environmental protection - Gaurav Sharma; Bharti Thakur; Mu. Naushad; Amit Kumar; Florian J. Stadler; Sulaiman M. Alfadul; Genene Tessema Mola (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2018)

Quantitative validation of immunofluorescence and lectin staining using reduced CLARITY acrylamide formulations - D. M. Krolewski; V. Kumar; B. Martin; R. Tomer; K. Deisseroth; R. M. Myers; A. F. Schatzberg; F. S. Lee; J. D. Barchas; W. E. Bunney; H. Akil; S. J. Watson (Brain Structure and Function, 2018)

Reliability and validity of telephonic Barthel Index: an experience from multi-centric randomized control study - Kameshwar Prasad; Amit Kumar; Shubham Misra; Arun K. Yadav; Sarat Johri; R. S. Sarkar; S. P. Gorthi; K. M. Hassan; Sudesh Prabhakar; Usha Kant Misra; Pradeep Kumar (Acta Neurologica Belgica, 2018)

Regional changes of precipitation and temperature over Bangladesh using bias‐corrected multi‐model ensemble projections considering high‐emission pathways - Md. Golam Rabbani Fahad; A. K. M. Saiful Islam; Rouzbeh Nazari; M. Alfi Hasan; G. M. Tarekul Islam; Sujit Kumar Bala (International Journal of Climatology, 2018)
A multi‐model ensemble provides useful information about the uncertainty of the future changes of climate. High‐emission scenarios using representative concentration pathways (RCP8.5) of the Fifth Phase Coupled Model Inter‐comparison Project (CMIP5) in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also aids to capture the possible extremity of the climate change. Using the CMIP5 regional climate modelling predictions, this study analyses the distribution of the temperature and precipitation in Bangladesh in the recent years (1971–2000) and in three future periods (2010–2040, 2041–2070 and 2070–2100) considering RCP8.5 scenarios. Climate changes are expressed in terms of 30‐year return values of annual near‐surface temperature and 24‐h precipitation amounts. At the end of the century, the mean temperature increase over Bangladesh among the 11 RCMs will vary from 5.77 to 3.24 °C. Spatial analysis of the 11 RCMs exhibited that the southwest and the south central parts of Bangladesh will experience a greater temperature rise in the future. Possible changes in rainfall are also exhibited both temporally and spatially. Based on the analysis of all the RCMs, a significant increase of rainfall in the pre‐ and post‐monsoon period is observed. It is also evident that monsoon rainfall will not increase in comparison with pre‐monsoon season. Zonal statistics of 64 districts of Bangladesh are also conducted for the 2020s, 2050s and 2080s to find out the most exposed regions in terms of the highest rise in temperature and changes in precipitation.

Drug targets in dormant Mycobacterium tuberculosis : can the conquest against tuberculosis become a reality? - Vivek Kumar Gupta; M. Madhan Kumar; Dharmendra Singh; Deepa Bisht; Shweta Sharma (Infectious Diseases, 2018)

Pore-Scale Simulation of Shear Thinning Fluid Flow Using Lattice Boltzmann Method - M. Jithin; Nimish Kumar; Ashoke De; Malay K. Das (Transport in Porous Media, 2018)

Somatic embryogenesis, acclimatization and genetic homogeneity assessment of regenerated plantlets of Anoectochilus elatus Lindl., an endangered terrestrial jewel orchid - N. Ahamed Sherif; J. H. Franklin Benjamin; T. Senthil Kumar; M. V. Rao (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2018)

MMP-12, a Promising Therapeutic Target for Neurological Diseases - Bharath Chelluboina; Koteswara Rao Nalamolu; Jeffrey D. Klopfenstein; David M. Pinson; David Z. Wang; Raghu Vemuganti; Krishna Kumar Veeravalli (Molecular Neurobiology, 2018)

Solvent-free synthesis and anticancer activity evaluation of benzimidazole and perimidine derivatives - Anuj Kumar; Somesh Banerjee; Partha Roy; S. M. Sondhi; Anuj Sharma (Molecular Diversity, 2018)

Synthesis of novel tetrazole containing hybrid ciprofloxacin and pipemidic acid analogues and preliminary biological evaluation of their antibacterial and antiproliferative activity - Kommula Dileep; Sowjanya Polepalli; Nishant Jain; Sudheer Kumar Buddana; R. S. Prakasham; M. S. R. Murty (Molecular Diversity, 2018)

Interactive effect of cadmium and zinc on chromium uptake in spinach grown in Vertisol of Central India - M. L. Dotaniya; S. Rajendiran; M. Vassanda Coumar; V. D. Meena; J. K. Saha; S. Kundu; A. Kumar; A. K. Patra (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2018)

Reconstructing the demographic history of the Himalayan and adjoining populations - Rakesh Tamang; Gyaneshwer Chaubey; Amrita Nandan; Periyasamy Govindaraj; Vipin Kumar Singh; Niraj Rai; Chandana Basu Mallick; Vishwas Sharma; Varun Kumar Sharma; Anish M. Shah; Albert Lalremruata; Alla G. Reddy; et al. (Human Genetics, 2018)

Pollution evaluation of total and acid-leachable trace elements in surface sediments of Hooghly River Estuary and Sundarban Mangrove Wetland (India) - Priyanka Mondal; Amanda J. Reichelt-Brushett; M. P. Jonathan; S. B. Sujitha; Santosh Kumar Sarkar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2018)

Enhanced production of pharmaceutically important isoflavones from hairy root rhizoclones of Trifolium pratense L. - M. Anil Kumar; S. S. Sravanthi Pammi; M. S. Sukanya; Archana Giri (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2018)

Dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase-1 (DDAH1) is frequently upregulated in prostate cancer, and its overexpression conveys tumor growth and angiogenesis by metabolizing asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) - Karthik Reddy Kami Reddy; Chandrashekhar Dasari; Divya Duscharla; Bhukya Supriya; N. Sai Ram; M. V. Surekha; Jerald Mahesh Kumar; Ramesh Ummanni (Angiogenesis, 2018)

Predictive models for biomass and carbon stock estimation in Psidium guajava on bouldery riverbed lands in North-Western Himalayas, India - A. C. Rathore; Abhishek Kumar; J. M. S. Tomar; J. Jayaprakash; H. Mehta; R. Kaushal; N. M. Alam; A. K. Gupta; A. Raizada; O. P. Chaturvedi (Agroforestry Systems, 2018)

Investigation of temperature changes over India in association with meteorological parameters in a warming climate - G. Purnadurga; T.V. Lakshmi Kumar; K. Koteswara Rao; M. Rajasekhar; M.S. Narayanan (International Journal of Climatology, 2018)
We have used 1° × 1° resolution maximum temperature ( T MAX ) data sets developed by India Meteorological Department (IMD) to examine the summer time warming over India during the period 2001–2014 in comparison with the period 1971–2000. The two study periods have been arrived at based on the drastic change of Moisture Index ( I M ) trends over India between the two epochs. The T MAX variations over India are discussed with the corresponding changes in Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) data of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) and Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) data of NOAA ESRL. The study shows a considerable warming over northern parts of India compared to southern parts. Western Himalayas (WH) and Northwest (NW) regions experienced highest warming with 1.4 °C and 0.8 °C increases during Epoch 2 (2001–2014) as compared Epoch 1 (1971–2000) during the summer (March, April and May). Using MERRA Black Carbon Surface Mass Concentration (BCSMC) data, we have analysed the relation of increasing BCSMC with the T MAX over different homogeneous temperature regions of India and found that BCSMC has increased upto 1.6 times between the two epochs. Strong linear association is found between T MAX , PET and OLR evidenced by Coherence Wavelet Spectral analysis. It is also found that the highest warming occurred in the month of March and is 2.2 °C in WH and 1.4 °C in NW parts of India. We calculated mass stream function based on zonal mean meridional velocity for the two periods. In the recent periods we observed the weakening of polar cell and northward expansion of Hadley cell. These changes may be related to warming conditions of the atmosphere which may explain the intensification and northward expansion of the Ferrel cell with favourable conditions during the summer season.

Removal of Trinitrotoluene with Nano Zerovalent Iron Impregnated Graphene Oxide - Bharti; Ishani Khurana; Ajay Kumar Shaw; Amit Saxena; Jitender M. Khurana; Pramod Kumar Rai (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2018)

Recommendations for the Development and Validation of Neutralizing Antibody Assays in Support of Biosimilar Assessment - D. Gouty; C. C. Cai; X. Y. Cai; A. Kasinath; V. Kumar; S. Alvandkouhi; J. Yang; S. Pederson; B. Babbitt; D. Peritt; A. Rudy; V. Koppenburg; et al. (The AAPS Journal, 2018)

Evaluation of maize genotypes for fodder quality traits and SSR diversity - Mohammedtarik M. Saiyad; Sushil Kumar (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2018)

Lead isotopic ratios in source apportionment of heavy metals in the street dust of Kolkata, India - A. Das; K V. S. S. Krishna; R. Kumar; M. C. Saha; S. Sengupta; J. G. Ghosh (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2018)

Temperature induces lead toxicity in Pangasius hypophthalmus: an acute test, antioxidative status and cellular metabolic stress - N. Kumar; K. K. Krishnani; M. P. Brahmane; S. K. Gupta; Paritosh Kumar; N. P. Singh (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2018)

Correction to: Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink—achieves genetic gains in wheat - Matthew P. Reynolds; Alistair J. D. Pask; William J. E. Hoppitt; Kai Sonder; Sivakumar Sukumaran; Gemma Molero; Carolina Saint Pierre; Thomas Payne; Ravi P. Singh; Hans J. Braun; Fernanda G. Gonzalez; Ignacio I. Terrile; et al. (Euphytica, 2018)
The original article was corrected. Author Muhammad Kundi should instead read: Muhammad Sohail.

Comparative Study on Whole Genome Sequences of Aspergillus terreus (Soil Fungus) and Diaporthe ampelina (Endophytic Fungus) with Reference to Lovastatin Production - S. D. Bhargavi; V. K. Praveen; M. Anil Kumar; J. Savitha (Current Microbiology, 2018)

Physio-biochemical parameters: a potential tool for target-selective treatment of haemonchosis in the small ruminants - Bhupamani Das; Niranjan Kumar; Mehul M. Jadav; Jayesh B. Solanki; T.K.S. Rao (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2017)

Sex Specific Seasonal Variation in Hematological and Serum Biochemical Indices of Barilius bendelisis from Central Himalaya, India - Neeraj Kumar Sharma; M. S. Akhtar; N. N. Pandey; Ravindra Singh; A. K. Singh (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

Expression of Recombinant BSP3 Protein and its Localization Studies in Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Spermatozoa - V. H. Muhammed Kutty; Sanjeev Kumar Bhure; Ashish M. Shende; Harikrishna Pillai; S. K. Ghosh; Sadhan Bag (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

The naked mole-rat exhibits an unusual cardiac myofilament protein profile providing new insights into heart function of this naturally subterranean rodent - Kelly M. Grimes; David Y. Barefield; Mohit Kumar; James W. McNamara; Susan T. Weintraub; Pieter P. de Tombe; Sakthivel Sadayappan; Rochelle Buffenstein (Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, 2017)

Multi-metal resistance and plant growth promotion potential of a wastewater bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its synergistic benefits - Jayanta Kumar Biswas; Monojit Mondal; Jörg Rinklebe; Santosh Kumar Sarkar; Punarbasu Chaudhuri; Mahendra Rai; Sabry M. Shaheen; Hocheol Song; Muhammad Rizwan (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2017)

Convergence and error analysis of fully discrete iterative coupling schemes for coupling flow with geomechanics - T. Almani; K. Kumar; M. F. Wheeler (Computational Geosciences, 2017)

A real-time ocean reanalyses intercomparison project in the context of tropical pacific observing system and ENSO monitoring - Yan Xue; C. Wen; A. Kumar; M. Balmaseda; Y. Fujii; O. Alves; M. Martin; X. Yang; G. Vernieres; C. Desportes; T. Lee; I. Ascione; et al. (Climate Dynamics, 2017)

A new species of Schizophrys (Majoidea: Majidae: Majinae) from the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, with description of its first zoea - Ali M. Al-Aidaroos; A. A. J. Kumar; Ahmed E. Al-Haj; Moritz Sonnewald (Marine Biodiversity, 2017)

Description of the larval stages of the Red Sea-inhabiting Cymo melanodactylus de Haan, 1833, C. andreossyi (Audouin, 1826) and C. quadrilobatus Miers, 1884 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae: Cymoinae) reared under laboratory conditions - Ahmed E. Al Haj; Ali M. Al Aidaroos; A. A. J. Kumar (Marine Biodiversity, 2017)

Redescription of the larval stages of Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) from the Red Sea, with notes on the male gonopods - Ali M. Al-Aidaroos; A. A. J. Kumar; Ahmed E. Al-Haj (Marine Biodiversity, 2017)

Daily thermal fluctuations to a range of subzero temperatures enhance cold hardiness of winter-acclimated turtles - James M. Wiebler; Manisha Kumar; Timothy J. Muir (Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2017)

Optimization of cell growth and bacoside-A production in suspension cultures of Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst. using response surface methodology - Mahima Bansal; M. Sudhakara Reddy; Anil Kumar (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2017)

Genomic characterization of a novel calicivirus, FHMCV-2012, from baitfish in the USA - Sunil Kumar Mor; Nicholas B. D. Phelps; Terry Fei Fan Ng; Kuttichantran Subramaniam; Alexander Primus; Anibal G. Armien; Rebekah McCann; Corey Puzach; Thomas B. Waltzek; Sagar M. Goyal (Archives of Virology, 2017)

Estimating carbon sequestration potential of existing agroforestry systems in India - Ajit; S. K. Dhyani; A. K. Handa; Ram Newaj; S. B. Chavan; Badre Alam; Rajendra Prasad; Asha Ram; R. H. Rizvi; Amit Kumar Jain; Uma; Dharmendra Tripathi; et al. (Agroforestry Systems, 2017)

Camel Milk: An Important Natural Adjuvant - Raghvendar Singh; Gorakh Mal; Devendra Kumar; N. V. Patil; K. M. L. Pathak (Agricultural Research, 2017)

Effect of Green Coffee Bean Extract on the Lipid Oxidative Stability and Storage Quality of Restructured Mutton Blocks Containing Colocasia esculenta, a Novel Binding Agent - H. M. Dilnawaz; Sunil Kumar; Z. F. Bhat (Agricultural Research, 2017)

Inhibitory activity of bio-active compounds isolated from Anadara granosa in shrimp health management - D. Sunil Kumar; P. Janakiram; M. Murali Krishna Kumar; G. Krishna Geetha (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017)

Comparative life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of lodging in the Himalaya - Silu Bhochhibhoya; Massimo Pizzol; Wouter M. J. Achten; Ramesh Kumar Maskey; Michela Zanetti; Raffaele Cavalli (The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2017)

Associated bacterial diversity of insecticide-susceptible and -resistant brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Homoptera: Delphacidae) analyzed by culture-dependent and -independent methods - V. M. Malathi; Sushil Kumar Jalali; Vazhakkala Jose Lyju; R. Gandhi Gracy; Ravi Prabhakar More; Rangasamy Anandham; Apoothy Thulasi; Thiruvengadam Venkatesan (Phytoparasitica, 2017)

Erratum to: Synthesis and characterization of new s-triazine bearing benzimidazole and benzothiazole derivatives as anticancer agents - G. Jagadeesh Kumar; S. Naveen Kumar; Dinesh Thummuri; Lavanya Bindu Sree Adari; V. G. M. Naidu; Kolupula Srinivas; V. Jayathirtha Rao (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2017)

Strategic crossing of biomass and harvest index—source and sink—achieves genetic gains in wheat - Matthew P. Reynolds; Alistair J. D. Pask; William J. E. Hoppitt; Kai Sonder; Sivakumar Sukumaran; Gemma Molero; Carolina Saint Pierre; Thomas Payne; Ravi P. Singh; Hans J. Braun; Fernanda G. Gonzalez; Ignacio I. Terrile; et al. (Euphytica, 2017)
To accelerate genetic gains in breeding, physiological trait (PT) characterization of candidate parents can help make more strategic crosses, increasing the probability of accumulating favorable alleles compared to crossing relatively uncharacterized lines. In this study, crosses were designed to complement “source” with “sink” traits, where at least one parent was selected for favorable expression of biomass and/or radiation use efficiency—source—and the other for sink-related traits like harvest-index, kernel weight and grains per spike. Female parents were selected from among genetic resources—including landraces and products of wide-crossing (i.e. synthetic wheat)—that had been evaluated in Mexico at high yield potential or under heat stress, while elite lines were used as males. Progeny of crosses were advanced to the F 4 generation within Mexico, and F 4 -derived F 5 and F 6 generations were yield tested to populate four international nurseries, targeted to high yield environments (2nd and 3rd WYCYT) for yield potential, and heat stressed environments (2nd and 4th SATYN) for climate resilience, respectively. Each nursery was grown as multi-location yield trials. Genetic gains were achieved in both temperate and hot environments, with most new PT-derived lines expressing superior yield and biomass compared to local checks at almost all international sites. Furthermore, the tendency across all four nurseries indicated either the superiority of the best new PT lines compared with the CIMMYT elite checks, or the superiority of all new PT lines as a group compared with all checks, and in some cases, both. Results support—in a realistic breeding context—the hypothesis that yield and radiation use efficiency can be increased by improving source:sink balance, and validate the feasibility of incorporating exotic germplasm into mainstream breeding efforts to accelerate genetic gains for yield potential and climate resilience.

Development of real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification for detection of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum race 4 in rhizomes and soil - T. P. Prameela; R. Suseela Bhai; M. Anandaraj; A. Kumar (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2017)

Headwaters to oceans: Ecological and biogeochemical contrasts across the aquatic continuum - Marguerite A. Xenopoulos; John A. Downing; M. Dileep Kumar; Susanne Menden‐Deuer; Maren Voss (Limnology and Oceanography, 2017)
While the disciplines of oceanography and limnology often operate in isolate, freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems are intricately linked. The emphasis of this special issue for Limnology and Oceanography is on the aquatic continuum and the connectivity between aquatic ecosystems from headwater streams and inland waters, to coastal and marine systems. Changes in the transport and transformation of elements as well as ecological functions occur along this aquatic continuum. Assemblages of organisms change in a way that reflects the ecological and biogeochemical conditions of the aquatic gradient. Here, we highlight research progress in limnology and oceanography across the aquatic continuum and at the interfaces of headwaters to oceans. Contributions explored nutrient and carbon dynamics which included release, transportation, transformation, and stoichiometry from freshwaters to marine. The special issue also explored food web continua, including functional changes, biodiversity gradients, and photosynthesis and respiration comparisons among ecosystems at different points in the continuum. Rapid improvements in biomolecular techniques, use of long‐term datasets, applications of novel statistical methods, and improved upscaling methods can transform the way aquatic scientists are describing biological organisms and communities from freshwaters to oceans. One important conclusion is the recognition that anthropogenic activities such as invasive species and nutrient pollution trigger challenge the current concepts of aquatic continua including the river continuum concept, the land to ocean continuum, river to estuary systems, and the submarine groundwater discharge. Both limnologists and oceanographers have much to gain from exchanging information with one another, especially in light of global change.

Effect of dietary utilisation of sugarcane press mud on production performance of Muzaffarnagari lambs - Ranjan Kumar; S. K. Saha; Dinesh Kumar; M. S. Mahesh; C. D. Malapure (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2017)

First Record of Abnormal Hermaphroditism in the Common Dolphin Fish, Coryphaena hippurus (Linnaeus, 1758) - T. B. Retheesh; Subal Kumar Roul; D. Prakasan; N. Beni; R. Thangaraja; E. M. Abdussamad (Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 2017)

Automatic procedures analyzing remote sensing data to minimize flood response time: a step towards National flood mapping service - Vinod Kumar Sharma; G. Srinivasa Rao; C. M. Bhatt; Abhinav Kumar Shukla; Ashish Kumar Mishra; V. Bhanumurthy (Spatial Information Research, 2017)

Heterologous expression of Infectious bursal disease virus VP2 gene in Chlorella pyrenoidosa as a model system for molecular farming - P. Harshavardhan Reddy; A. M. Anthony Johnson; J. Kiran Kumar; T. Naveen; M. Charitha Devi (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2017)

Marker-assisted identification of restorer gene(s) in iso-cytoplasmic restorer lines of WA cytoplasm in rice and assessment of their fertility restoration potential across environments - Amit Kumar; Prolay Kumar Bhowmick; Vikram Jeet Singh; Manoj Malik; Ashish Kumar Gupta; R. Seth; M. Nagarajan; S. Gopala Krishnan; Ashok Kumar Singh (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2017)

Advances in proteomic technologies and their scope of application in understanding plant–pathogen interactions - N. M. R. Ashwin; Leonard Barnabas; A. Ramesh Sundar; P. Malathi; R. Viswanathan; Antonio Masi; Ganesh Kumar Agrawal; Randeep Rakwal (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2017)

Interaction of coeval felsic and mafic magmas from the Kanker granite, Pithora region, Bastar Craton, Central India - R Elangovan; Kumar Krishna; Neeraj Vishwakarma; K R Hari; M Ram Mohan (Journal of Earth System Science, 2017)

Systemic analysis of soil microbiome deciphers anthropogenic influence on soil ecology and ecosystem functioning - S. Gupta; M. Kumar; J. Kumar; V. Ahmad; R. Pandey; N. S. Chauhan (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2017)

Floral biology of Grewia flavescens Juss.: an underutilized crop - Veeresh Kumar; A. R. Uthappa; Madhulika Srivastava; D. Vijay; K. M. Kumaranag; N. Manjunatha; Maneet Rana; Ram Newaj; A. K. Handa; O. P. Chaturvedi (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2017)

Identification of mungbean lines with tolerance or resistance to yellow mosaic in fields in India where different begomovirus species and different Bemisia tabaci cryptic species predominate - R. M. Nair; M. Götz; S. Winter; R. R. Giri; V. N. Boddepalli; A. Sirari; T. S. Bains; G. K. Taggar; H. K. Dikshit; M. Aski; M. Boopathi; D. Swain; et al. (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2017)

A Case of Renal Tubular Acidosis with Sjogren’s Syndrome Showing Paradoxical Block of PTH Due to Severe Hypomagnesemia - B. Vinodh Kumar; M. Sivalingam; G. Shiva Kumaran; Balambal Balakrishnan (Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, 2017)

Observation of dominance of swells over wind seas in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mannar, India - M. M. Amrutha; V. Sanil Kumar (Ocean Science, 2017)
Wind seas typically dominate over swell seas in coastal gulfs. Waves measured at a location having a water depth of 12 m in the near-shore waters of the Gulf of Mannar during a 1-year period (1 May 2015 to 30 April 2016) are used to examine the predominance of wind seas and swells through spectral characterization. The study shows that even though the location is in a gulf, the annual average value ( ∼ 0.84 m) of the significant wave height in this area is comparable to that along the coastal waters of the Indian subcontinent, but the annual maximum value ( ∼ 1.7 m) recorded is much less than that (3 to 5 m) observed in those regions. Also, large seasonal variations are not observed in the wave height. The waves of the study region are under the control of sea breeze, with the maximum in the late evening hours and the minimum in the early morning hours. A 5 % increase in the forcing wind field during the monsoon period improved the comparison statistics between the model wave height and the measured values. A total of 53 % of the surface height variance in the study area is a result of swells from the southeast and south, and the remainder are wind seas from the east and southeast.

Quality, functionality, and shelf life of fermented meat and meat products: A review - Pavan Kumar; M. K. Chatli; Akhilesh K. Verma; Nitin Mehta; O. P. Malav; Devendra Kumar; Neelesh Sharma (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2017)

Bt Cotton–Groundnut Intercropping System: A Pragmatic Approach for Increasing Edible Oilseeds Production in India - Raman Jeet Singh; N. M. Alam; Suresh Kumar (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

Influence of Ethanol on Darunavir Hepatic Clearance and Intracellular PK/PD in HIV-Infected Monocytes, and CYP3A4-Darunavir Interactions Using Inhibition and in Silico Binding Studies - Narasimha M. Midde; Yuqing Gong; Theodore J. Cory; Junhao Li; Bernd Meibohm; Weihua Li; Santosh Kumar (Pharmaceutical Research, 2017)

Differential expression of AP-1 transcription factors in human prostate LNCaP and PC-3 cells: role of Fra-1 in transition to CRPC status - K. Kavya; M. Naveen Kumar; Rajeshwari H. Patil; Shubha M. Hegde; K. M. Kiran Kumar; Rashmi Nagesh; R. L. Babu; Govindarajan T. Ramesh; S. Chidananda Sharma (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2017)

Metallic Pb nanospheres in ultra-high temperature metamorphosed zircon from southern India - M. J. Whitehouse; M. A. Kusiak; R. Wirth; G. R. Ravindra Kumar (Mineralogy and Petrology, 2017)

Co-inoculation with Enterobacter and Rhizobacteria on Yield and Nutrient Uptake by Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Alluvial Soil Under Indo-Gangetic Plain of India - Ashok Kumar; B. R. Maurya; R. Raghuwanshi; Vijay Singh Meena; M. Tofazzal Islam (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2017)

A composite index for drought hazard assessment using CPC rainfall time series data - C. S. Murthy; J. Singh; P. Kumar; M. V. R. Sesha Sai (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2017)

Effects of omega-3 on matrix metalloproteinase-9, myoblast transplantation and satellite cell activation in dystrophin-deficient muscle fibers - Samara Camaçari de Carvalho; Sajedah M. Hindi; Ashok Kumar; Maria Julia Marques (Cell and Tissue Research, 2017)

Evidences for diabetes and insulin mimetic activity of medicinal plants: Present status and future prospects - H. M. Manukumar; J. Shiva Kumar; B. Chandrasekhar; Sri Raghava; S. Umesha (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2017)

Spatial and temporal variation in daily temperature indices in summer and winter seasons over India (1969–2012) - Naresh Kumar; A. K. Jaswal; M. Mohapatra; P. A. Kore (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017)

Depth of soil compaction predominantly affects rice yield reduction by reproductive-stage drought at varietal screening sites in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal - Suresh Prasad Singh; Abhinav Jain; M. S. Anantha; Santosh Tripathi; Subarna Sharma; Santosh Kumar; Archana Prasad; Bhawana Sharma; Biswajit Karmakar; Rudra Bhattarai; Sankar Prasad Das; Shravan K. Singh; et al. (Plant and Soil, 2017)

Heat wave over India during summer 2015: an assessment of real time extended range forecast - D. R. Pattanaik; M. Mohapatra; A. K. Srivastava; Arun Kumar (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2017)

Accurate lumen diameter measurement in curved vessels in carotid ultrasound: an iterative scale-space and spatial transformation approach - P. Krishna Kumar; Tadashi Araki; Jeny Rajan; Luca Saba; Francesco Lavra; Nobutaka Ikeda; Aditya M. Sharma; Shoaib Shafique; Andrew Nicolaides; John R. Laird; Ajay Gupta; Jasjit S. Suri (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2017)

Satellite-based technique for nowcasting of thunderstorms over Indian region - Suman Goyal; Ashish Kumar; M Mohapatra; L S Rathore; S K Dube; Rahul Saxena; R K Giri (Journal of Earth System Science, 2017)

Expression dynamics of HSP90 and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms during heat stress acclimation in Tharparkar cattle - Jaya Bharati; S.S. Dangi; S. Bag; V.P. Maurya; G. Singh; P. Kumar; M. Sarkar (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2017)

Geographical distribution of traits and diversity in the world collection of pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., synonym: Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] landraces conserved at the ICRISAT genebank - H. D. Upadhyaya; K. N. Reddy; M. Irshad Ahmed; Vinod Kumar; M. K. Gumma; Senthil Ramachandran (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2017)

A dosing algorithm for metformin based on the relationships between exposure and renal clearance of metformin in patients with varying degrees of kidney function - Janna K. Duong; M. Y. A. M. Kroonen; S. S. Kumar; H. L. Heerspink; C. M. Kirkpatrick; G. G. Graham; K. M. Williams; R. O. Day (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2017)

Vegetation dynamics in Bishrampur collieries of northern Chhattisgarh, India: eco-restoration and management perspectives - A. Kumar; M. K. Jhariya; D. K. Yadav; A. Banerjee (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

Importance of satellite-retrieved rain/no-rain information on short-range weather predictions - Prashant Kumar; C. M. Kishtawal (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017)

Development and validation of EST derived SSR markers with relevance to downy mildew (Sclerospora graminicola Sacc.) resistance in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] - Harshvardhan N. Zala; Kalyani S. Kulkarni; Tejas C. Bosamia; Yogesh M. Shukla; Sushil Kumar; Ranbir S. Fougat; Ankita Patel (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2017)

Meteorological features associated with unprecedented precipitation over India during 1st week of March 2015 - Naresh Kumar; M Mohapatra; A K Jaswal (Journal of Earth System Science, 2017)

Comprehensive strategy for the design of precision drugs and identification of genetic signature behind proneness of the disease—a pharmacogenomic approach - Preethi M Iyer; S Karthikeyan; P Sanjay Kumar; P K Krishnan Namboori (Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2017)

An optical remote sensing approach for ecological monitoring of red and green Noctiluca scintillans - S. K. Baliarsingh; R. M. Dwivedi; Aneesh A. Lotliker; K. C. Sahu; T. Srinivasa Kumar; S. S. C. Shenoi (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

Erratum to: Ocean atmosphere thermal decoupling in the eastern equatorial Indian ocean - Sudheer Joseph; M. Ravichandran; B. Praveen Kumar; Raju V. Jampana; Weiqing Han (Climate Dynamics, 2017)

Ocean atmosphere thermal decoupling in the eastern equatorial Indian ocean - Sudheer Joseph; M. Ravichandran; B. Praveen Kumar; Raju V. Jampana; Weiqing Han (Climate Dynamics, 2017)

Preponderance of clonality triggers loss of sex in Bulbophyllum bicolor , an obligately outcrossing epiphytic orchid - Ai‐Qun Hu; Stephan W. Gale; Pankaj Kumar; Richard M. K. Saunders; Mei Sun; Gunter A. Fischer (Molecular Ecology, 2017)
Vegetative propagation (clonal growth) conveys several evolutionary advantages that positively affect life history fitness and is a widespread phenomenon among angiosperms that also reproduce sexually. However, a bias towards clonality can interfere with sexual reproduction and lead to sexual extinction, although a dearth of effective genetic tools and mathematical models for clonal plants has hampered assessment of these impacts. Using the endangered tropical epiphytic or lithophytic orchid Bulbophyllum bicolor as a model, we integrated an examination of breeding system with 12 microsatellite loci and models valid for clonal species to test for the “loss of sex” and infer likely consequences for long‐term reproductive dynamics. Bagging experiments and field observations revealed B. bicolor to be self‐incompatible and pollinator‐dependent, with an absence of fruit‐set over 4 years. Challenging the assumptions that clonal populations can be as genotypically diverse as sexually reproducing ones and that clonality does not greatly influence genetic structure, just 22 multilocus genotypes were confirmed among all 15 extant natural populations, 12 of the populations were found to be monoclonal, and all three multiclonal ones exhibited a distinct phalanx clonal architecture. Our results suggest that all B. bicolor populations depend overwhelmingly on clonal growth for persistence, with a concomitant loss of sex due to an absence of pollinators and a lack of mating opportunities at virtually all sites, both of which are further entrenched by habitat fragmentation. Such cryptic life history impacts, potentially contributing to extinction debt, could be widespread among similarly fragmented, outcrossing tropical epiphytes, demanding urgent conservation attention.

Antagonistic Behavior of Different Bioagents Against Dominant Seed Borne Fungi of Mungbean Seeds Under In Vitro Condition - Saurabh Singh; Asha Sinha; S. M. Yadav; Bhupendra Kumar Singh; Harendra Singh; Shewta Srivastava; Ravindra Kumar (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

Intracranial Aspergillosis in an Immunocompetent Young Woman - Prasan Kumar Panda; Sunil Kumar Mavidi; Naveet Wig; Ajay Garg; Aasma Nalwa; M. C. Sharma (Mycopathologia, 2017)

Expression dynamics of HSP70 during chronic heat stress in Tharparkar cattle - Jaya Bharati; S.S. Dangi; V.S. Chouhan; S.R. Mishra; M.K. Bharti; V. Verma; O. Shankar; V.P. Yadav; K. Das; A. Paul; S. Bag; V.P. Maurya; et al. (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2017)

Groundwater arsenic contamination and its health effects in India - Dipankar Chakraborti; Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman; Bhaskar Das; Amit Chatterjee; Dipankar Das; Biswajit Nayak; Arup Pal; Uttam Kumar Chowdhury; Sad Ahmed; Bhajan Kumar Biswas; Mrinal Kumar Sengupta; Md. Amir Hossain; et al. (Hydrogeology Journal, 2017)

Occurrence of a rare gigantic sized deep-sea cod Lepidion inosimae (Günther, 1887) in the Northwestern Indian Ocean - Jacob Vinu; M. P. Rajeesh Kumar; K. S. Sumod; K. P. Deepa; M. Hashim; V. N. Sanjeevan; M. Sudhakar (Marine Biodiversity, 2017)

First record of the deep-sea giant pycnogonid, Ascorhynchus levissimus Loman, 1908 from the Indian Ocean - Khader Chippy; N. Saravanane; Thomy Reethas; P. Priyaja; U. Deepika; B. Kishore Kumar; M. Sudhakar (Marine Biodiversity, 2017)

Genome sequencing of an Indian peste des petits ruminants virus isolate, Izatnagar/94, and its implications for virus diversity, divergence and phylogeography - Amit Ranjan Sahu; Sajad Ahmad Wani; M. Saminathan; Kaushal Kishor Rajak; Aditya Prasad Sahoo; Aruna Pandey; Shikha Saxena; Sonam Kanchan; Ashok Kumar Tiwari; Bina Mishra; D. Muthuchelvan; R. P. Singh; et al. (Archives of Virology, 2017)

Satellite telemetry of Yellowfin tuna feeding migration: a case study in southwestern Bay of Bengal - Rose Bright; Naga Swetha; Sanjiba Kumar Baliarsingh; Kumar Nimit; Nagaraja Kumar M; Srinivasa Kumar T; Rashmin Dwivedi; Satheesh Chandra Shenoi (Marine Geodesy, 2017)

Wave spectral shapes in the coastal waters based on measured data off Karwar on the western coast of India - M. Anjali Nair; V. Sanil Kumar (Ocean Science, 2017)
An understanding of the wave spectral shapes is of primary importance for the design of marine facilities. In this paper, the wave spectra collected from January 2011 to December 2015 in the coastal waters of the eastern Arabian Sea using the moored directional waverider buoy are examined to determine the temporal variations in the wave spectral shape. Over an annual cycle for 31.15 % of the time, the peak frequency is between 0.08 and 0.10 Hz; the significant wave height is also relatively high (∼ 1.55 m) for waves in this class. The slope of the high-frequency tail of the monthly average wave spectra is high during the Indian summer monsoon period (June–September) compared to other months, and it increases with an increase in significant wave height. There is not much interannual variation in the slope for swell-dominated spectra during the monsoon, while in the non-monsoon period when wind-seas have a high level of influence, the slope varies significantly. Since the exponent of the high-frequency part of the wave spectrum is within the range of −4 to −3 during the monsoon period, the Donelan spectrum shows a better fit for the high-frequency part of the wave spectra in monsoon months compared to other months.

Removal of Dyes Using Graphene-Based Composites: a Review - Ishani Khurana; Amit Saxena; Bharti; Jitender M. Khurana; Pramod Kumar Rai (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2017)

Impact of assimilation of INSAT-3D retrieved atmospheric motion vectors on short-range forecast of summer monsoon 2014 over the South Asian region - Prashant Kumar; Sanjib K. Deb; C. M. Kishtawal; P. K. Pal (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017)

Spectroscopic Physicochemical and Photophysical Investigation of Biologically Active 2-oxo-quinoline-3-carbonitrile Derivative - Mohie E. M. Zayed; Parveen Kumar (Journal of Fluorescence, 2017)

Response of water deficit regime and soil amelioration on evapotranspiration loss and water use efficiency of maize (Zea mays l.) in subtropical northeastern Himalayas - M. A. Marwein; B.U. Choudhury; D. Chakraborty; M. Kumar; A. Das; D. J. Rajkhowa (International Journal of Biometeorology, 2017)

Estimation of green house gas emissions from Koteshwar hydropower reservoir, India - Amit Kumar; M. P. Sharma (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017)

Assessing decision-making and economic performance of farmers to manage climate-induced crisis in Coastal Karnataka (India) - H. M. Vinaya Kumar; M. Shivamurthy; V. Govinda Gowda; G. S. Biradar (Climatic Change, 2017)

Food structure: Its formation and relationships with other properties - Mohammad U. H. Joardder; Chandan Kumar; M. A. Karim (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2017)

Mastitis effects on reproductive performance in dairy cattle: a review - Narender Kumar; A. Manimaran; A. Kumaresan; S. Jeyakumar; L. Sreela; P. Mooventhan; M. Sivaram (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2017)

Shift in the level of susceptibility and relative resistance of brinjal shoot and fruit borer Leucinodes orbonalis (Guen) to diamide insecticides - M. H. Kodandaram; A. B. Rai; Sujeet Kumar Sharma; B. Singh (Phytoparasitica, 2017)

Efficient, one step and cultivar independent shoot organogenesis of potato - Amanpreet Kaur; M. Sudhakara Reddy; Anil Kumar (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2017)

A geospatial analysis of Samudra Tapu and Gepang Gath glacial lakes in the Chandra Basin, Western Himalaya - Lavkush Kumar Patel; Parmanand Sharma; C. M. Laluraj; Meloth Thamban; Ajit Singh; Rasik Ravindra (Natural Hazards, 2017)

Microsatellite marker-based genetic diversity analysis of elite lentil lines differing in grain iron and zinc concentration - Akanksha Singh; V. K. Sharma; H. K. Dikshit; D. Singh; M. Aski; Prapti Prakash; S. C. Kaushik; Gyanendra Singh; Shiv Kumar; A. Sarker (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2017)

Turcicum leaf blight—sustainable management of a re-emerging maize disease - K. S. Hooda; M. K. Khokhar; Meena Shekhar; Chikkappa G. Karjagi; Bhupinder Kumar; N. Mallikarjuna; R. K. Devlash; C. Chandrashekara; O. P. Yadav (Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, 2017)

Diversity analysis and evaluation of wild Abelmoschus species for agro-morphological traits and major biotic stresses under the north western agro-climatic condition of India - K. K. Gangopadhyay; Ashish Singh; Manas Kumar Bag; Pragya Ranjan; T. V. Prasad; Anirban Roy; M. Dutta (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2017)

Propagation of forcing and model uncertainties on to hydrological drought characteristics in a multi-model century-long experiment in large river basins - L. Samaniego; R. Kumar; L. Breuer; A. Chamorro; M. Flörke; I. G. Pechlivanidis; D. Schäfer; H. Shah; T. Vetter; M. Wortmann; X. Zeng (Climatic Change, 2017)

Evaluation of groundwater quality in an untreated wastewater irrigated region and mapping—a case study of Avaniyapuram sewage farm, Madurai - S. Chandran; M. Karmegam; V. Kumar; M. Dhanasekarapandian (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017)

Shift in MONSOON–SST teleconnections in the tropical Indian Ocean and ENSEMBLES climate models' fidelity in its simulation - Maheswar Pradhan; Ramesh Kumar Yadav; A. Ramu Dandi; Ankur Srivastava; M. K. Phani; Suryachandra A. Rao (International Journal of Climatology, 2017)
The climate shift in 1976–1977 sets a clear distinction in the teleconnection between Indian summer monsoon rainfall ( ISMR ) and sea surface temperatures ( SST ) in the tropical oceans, particularly in the tropical Indian Ocean ( TIO ). Before the climate shift (Pre‐77), the observed correlation between ISMR and SST was positive in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean ( EIO ) and negative correlation prevailed in the western equatorial Indian Ocean ( WIO ), whereas after the climate shift (Post‐77), the correlation pattern has reversed (i.e. positive correlation in WIO and negative correlation in EIO ). The major reason for this shift is the consistent warming of SSTs throughout the tropics and frequent occurrence of IOD events. Further, it is noticed that during the earlier decades, the Indian Ocean was responding to the atmospheric forcing, particularly along the axis of strong cross equatorial flow, whereas in the recent decades, Indian Ocean dynamics are playing a crucial role in determining the SST in major parts of the Indian Ocean particularly in the EIO . Seasonal re‐forecasts from six state‐of‐the‐art global coupled atmosphere–ocean climate models which participated in ENSEMBLES faithfully capture the pre‐77 dipole structure of correlations. But the post‐77 correlation pattern is not simulated by any of the six models considered in this study. Two possible reasons are pointed out for the models' inability to capture the reversal of teleconnection: (1) in the coupled models, unchanged mean state of the winds inhibits ISMR to be governed by coupled dynamics in the TIO ; (2) the strong, local SST –rainfall relationship in models even in post‐77 period limits the influence of the teleconnections on the ISMR .

Meat analogues: Health promising sustainable meat substitutes - Pavan Kumar; M. K. Chatli; Nitin Mehta; Parminder Singh; O. P. Malav; Akhilesh K. Verma (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2017)

Immunomodulatory and prophylactic efficacy of herbal extracts against experimentally induced chicken infectious anaemia in chicks: assessing the viral load and cell mediated immunity - Shyma K. Latheef; K. Dhama; Hari Abdul Samad; Mohd Yaqoob Wani; M. Asok Kumar; M. Palanivelu; Yashpal Singh Malik; S. D. Singh; Rajendra Singh (VirusDisease, 2017)

Agroecology as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Smallholders of Tehri-Garhwal in the Indian Himalayan Region - Rajiv Pandey; Roberta Aretano; Ajay K. Gupta; Dhanraj Meena; Bhuvnesh Kumar; Juha M. Alatalo (Small-scale Forestry, 2017)

Effects of Dietary Anthraquinone Extract on Growth, Metabolic and Haemato-immunological Responses of Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822) Fingerlings - Sikendra Kumar; Chandra Prakash; S. K. Gupta; N. K. Chadha; K. K. Jain; M. M. Ghughuskar; P. K. Pandey (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2017)

Hydrochemical Characteristics and Quality Assessment of Groundwater in Patuakhali District, Southern Coastal Region of Bangladesh - S. M. Didar-Ul Islam; Ratan Kumar Majumder; Mohammed Jamal Uddin; Md. Ibrahim Khalil; Md. Ferdous Alam (Exposure and Health, 2017)

Carbon Uptake Rates in the Cochin Estuary and Adjoining Coastal Arabian Sea - P. S. Bhavya; Sanjeev Kumar; G. V. M. Gupta; V. Sudheesh (Estuaries and Coasts, 2017)