Characterization of Tolerance Limit in Spirulina platensis in Relation to Nanoparticles - J. A. Lone; A. Kumar; S. Kundu; F. A. Lone; M. R. Suseela (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2013)

Allelochemical resistance traits of muskmelon (Cucumis melo) against the fruit fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae) in a hot arid region of India - Shravan M. Haldhar; R. Bhargava; B. R. Choudhary; Garima Pal; Suresh Kumar (Phytoparasitica, 2013)

Tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean during El-Niño Modoki years - K. G. Sumesh; M. R. Ramesh Kumar (Natural Hazards, 2013)

Synthesis of fatty acid Schiff base esters as potential antimicrobial and chemotherapeutic agents - Y. Mohini; R. B. N. Prasad; M. S. L. Karuna; C. Ganesh Kumar; M. Poornima; P. Sujitha (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Synthesis, anti-inflammatory, and cytotoxicity evaluation of 9,10-dihydroanthracene-9,10-α,β-succinimide and bis-succinimide derivatives - Surbhi Arya; Sandeep Kumar; Reshma Rani; Nikhil Kumar; Partha Roy; Sham M. Sondhi (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of some novel 4-isopropyl thiazole-based sulfonyl derivatives as potent antimicrobial and antitubercular agents - G. V. Suresh Kumar; Y. Rajendra Prasad; S. M. Chandrashekar (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Ann Based Robust LULC Classification Technique Using Spectral, Texture and Elevation Data - R. Suresh Kumar; C. Menaka; M. E. J. Cutler (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2013)

Synthesis, DNA-binding, Cytotoxicity, Photo Cleavage, Antimicrobial and Docking Studies of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes - A. Srishailam; Yata Praveen Kumar; Nazar M. D. Gabra; P. Venkat Reddy; N. Deepika; Nageti Veerababu; S. Satyanarayana (Journal of Fluorescence, 2013)

Replication and fine mapping of asthma-associated loci in individuals of African ancestry - David B. Kantor; Cameron D. Palmer; Taylor R. Young; Yan Meng; Zofia K. Gajdos; Helen Lyon; Alkes L. Price; Samuela Pollack; Stephanie J. London; Laura R. Loehr; Lewis J. Smith; Rajesh Kumar; et al. (Human Genetics, 2013)

The radius spectrum of solid grains settling in gaseous giant protoplanets - G. C. Paul; M. M. Rahman; D. Kumar; M. C. Barman (Earth Science Informatics, 2013)

A new variant 5R9-7 of Puccinia triticina on emmer and durum wheats in India - S. C. Bhardwaj; S. K. Jain; M. Prashar; Subodh Kumar (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2013)

Outcomes from a Postgraduate Biomedical Technology Innovation Training Program: The First 12 Years of Stanford Biodesign - Todd J. Brinton; Christine Q. Kurihara; David B. Camarillo; Jan B. Pietzsch; Julian Gorodsky; Stefanos A. Zenios; Rajiv Doshi; Christopher Shen; Uday N. Kumar; Anurag Mairal; Jay Watkins; Richard L. Popp; et al. (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2013)

Plant ionomics: a newer approach to study mineral transport and its regulation - Uma M. Singh; Purnima Sareen; Rakesh S. Sengar; Anil Kumar (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2013)

Development of a monoclonal antibody‐based flow‐through immunoassay ( FTA ) for detection of white spot syndrome virus ( WSSV ) in black tiger shrimp P enaeus monodon - R Patil; K M Shankar; B T N Kumar; A Kulkarni; P Patil; N Moger (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2013)
A flow‐through immunoassay ( FTA ), an improved version of immunodot, was developed using a nitrocellulose membrane baked onto adsorbent pads enclosed in a plastic cassette to detect white spot syndrome virus ( WSSV ) in shrimp. Sharp purple dots developed with WSSV against the white background of the nitrocellulose membrane. The detection limits of WSSV by the FTA and immunodot were 0.312 and 1.2 μg mL −1 crude WSSV protein, respectively. The FTA could be completed in 8–10 min compared with 90 min for immunodot. The FTA was 100 times more sensitive than 1‐step polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and in between that of the 1‐ and 2‐step PCR protocol recommended by the Office of International Epizootics ( OIE ). In experimental, orally infected shrimp post‐larvae, WSSV was first detected 14, 16 and 18 h post‐infection (hpi) by FTA , immunodot and one‐step PCR , respectively. The FTA detected WSSV 2 and 4 h earlier than immunodot and one‐step PCR , respectively. The FTA was more sensitive (25/27) than one‐step PCR (23/27) and immunodot (23/27) for the detection of WSSV from white spot disease outbreak ponds. The reagent components of the FTA were stable giving expected results for 6 m at 4–8 °C. The FTA is available as a rapid test kit called ‘RapiDot’ for the early detection of WSSV under field conditions.

Radiation hybrid QTL mapping of Tdes2 involved in the first meiotic division of wheat - F. M. Bassi; A. Kumar; Q. Zhang; E. Paux; E. Huttner; A. Kilian; R. Dizon; C. Feuillet; S. S. Xu; S. F. Kianian (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2013)

Mitochondrial VDAC and hexokinase together modulate plant programmed cell death - Ashwini Godbole; Ashvini Kumar Dubey; Palakolanu S. Reddy; M. Udayakumar; Mathew K. Mathew (Protoplasma, 2013)

Cloning, in silico characterization and induction of TiKpp2 MAP kinase in Tilletia indica under the influence of host factor(s) from wheat spikes - Atul K. Gupta; G. K. Joshi; J. M. Seneviratne; Dinesh Pandey; Anil Kumar (Molecular Biology Reports, 2013)

Effect of estrogen and tamoxifen on the expression pattern of AP-1 factors in MCF-7 cells: role of c-Jun, c-Fos, and Fra-1 in cell cycle regulation - R. L. Babu; M. Naveen Kumar; Rajeshwari H. Patil; K. S. Devaraju; Govindarajan T. Ramesh; S. Chidananda Sharma (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2013)

Biological impacts of ocean acidification: a postgraduate perspective on research priorities - Samantha L. Garrard; R. C. Hunter; A. Y. Frommel; A. C. Lane; J. C. Phillips; R. Cooper; R. Dineshram; U. Cardini; S. J. McCoy; M. Arnberg; B. G. Rodrigues Alves; S. Annane; et al. (Marine Biology, 2013)

Low level cloud motion vectors from Kalpana-1 visible images - INDERPREET KAUR; S K DEB; C M KISHTAWAL; P K PAL; RAJ KUMAR (Journal of Earth System Science, 2013)

Health care industries: potential generators of genotoxic waste - Pratibha Sharma; Manish Kumar; N. Mathur; A. Singh; P. Bhatnagar; M. Sogani (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013)

Search for missing schizophrenia genes will require a new developmental neurogenomic perspective - H. B. KIRAN KUMAR; CHRISTINA CASTELLANI; SUJIT MAITI; RICHARD O’REILLY; SHIVA M. SINGH (Journal of Genetics, 2013)

Functional expression of Brassica juncea oleate desaturase gene (Bjfad2) in Escherichia coli - Giriyapura S. Suresha; Sanjeev Kumar; Ittiamparambath M. Santha (Biologia, 2013)

Earthquake precursory research in western Himalaya based on the multi-parametric geophysical observatory data - Naresh Kumar; Gautam Rawat; Vinay M. Choubey; Devajit Hazarika (Acta Geophysica, 2013)

Transgenics in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) expressing cry1AcF gene for resistance to Spodoptera litura (F.) - G. Keshavareddy; S. Rohini; S. V. Ramu; S. Sundaresha; A. R. V. Kumar; P. Ananda Kumar; M. Udayakumar (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2013)

Chemical characterization of the lipophilic extract of Hydrilla verticillata: a widely spread aquatic weed - K. Byju; V. Anuradha; Emilda Rosmine; N. C. Kumar; S. M. Nair (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2013)

Elucidation of lead-induced oxidative stress in Talinum triangulare roots by analysis of antioxidant responses and DNA damage at cellular level - Abhay Kumar; M. N. V. Prasad; V. Mohan Murali Achary; Brahma B. Panda (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013)

IMPROVING WATER PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MICRO‐IRRIGATION IN ARID PUNJAB REGIONS - Satyendra Kumar; Rajbir Singh; M. J. Kaledhonkar; D. D. Nangare; Ashwani Kumar (Irrigation and Drainage, 2013)
Inadequate water supply in a canal command area is a major limiting factor for sustainable crop production, as well as for adoption of crop diversification options. Shifting from conventional (surface) irrigation to micro‐irrigation in conjunction with an auxiliary reservoir is a possible alternative for managing irrigation water shortages. The auxiliary reservoir provides a reliable water supply for the micro‐irrigation system during the period when the canal system is not operational. To study the techno‐economic feasibility of a proposed technological package, an auxiliary reservoir of 1500 m 3 capacity was constructed at the Research Farm of Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Abohar, India, which received a canal supply from an outlet of the Panjawa minor of the Abohar distributory of the Sirhind canal system. Drip irrigation was used to irrigate kinnow ( Citrus reticulata Blanco.), guava ( Psidium guajava L.), pomegranate ( Punica granatum L.), tomato ( Lycopersicum esculentum L.) and capsicum ( Capsicum annuum L.). Drip and micro‐sprinkler both were used for potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) and onion ( Allium cepa L.). These crops were also grown with surface irrigation methods (border or furrow depending upon the crop) as control. Results of the study indicated that the interventions were able to save a substantial amount of irrigation water (3–46%) compared to surface methods, along with higher yields, a doubling of water productivity and more profits per mm of irrigation water. The study clearly showed that micro‐irrigation in conjunction with an auxiliary reservoir should be recommended in canal‐irrigated commands in order to improve water productivity and farmers' income in arid regions of Punjab. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Influence of Micronutrients on Yield and Quality of Sugarcane - K. V. Naga Madhuri; N. V. Sarala; M. Hemanth Kumar; M. Subba Rao; V. Giridhar (Sugar Tech, 2013)

Genetic Diversity Among Saccharum spontaneum Clones and Commercial Hybrids Through SSR Markers - R. K. Singh; R. B. Singh; S. P. Singh; N. Mishra; J. Rastogi; M. L. Sharma; A. Kumar (Sugar Tech, 2013)

Modulation of G protein-coupled adenosine receptors by strategically functionalized agonists and antagonists immobilized on gold nanoparticles - P. Suresh Jayasekara; Khai Phan; Dilip K. Tosh; T. Santhosh Kumar; Steven M. Moss; Guofeng Zhang; Joseph J. Barchi; Zhan-Guo Gao; Kenneth A. Jacobson (Purinergic Signalling, 2013)

Molecular Cloning, Biochemical Characterization, and Differential Expression of an Acetyl-CoA C-Acetyltransferase Gene (AACT) of Brahmi (Bacopa monniera) - Rishi K. Vishwakarma; Ruby; Somesh Singh; Prashant D. Sonawane; Sameer Srivastava; Uma Kumari; R. J. Santosh Kumar; Bashir M. Khan (Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2013)

Effect of Different Growing Environments on Population Dynamics of Sucking Pests in Relation to Various Spectral Indices in Cotton - Naresh Kumar; Ram Niwas; M. L. Khichar; R. K. Saini; Barun Biswas (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2013)

Dichloroacetate reverses the hypoxic adaptation to bevacizumab and enhances its antitumor effects in mouse xenografts - Krishan Kumar; Simon Wigfield; Harriet E. Gee; Cecilia M. Devlin; Dean Singleton; Ji-Liang Li; Francesca Buffa; Melanie Huffman; Anthony L. Sinn; Jayne Silver; Helen Turley; Russell Leek; et al. (Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2013)

Large scale features and assessment of spatial scale correspondence between TMPA and IMD rainfall datasets over Indian landmass - R UMA; T V LAKSHMI KUMAR; M S NARAYANAN; M RAJEEVAN; JYOTI BHATE; K NIRANJAN KUMAR (Journal of Earth System Science, 2013)

Molecular Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 Reveals Continuous Evolution of Its New Variants in India - M. Jain; K. S. Kushwah; P. Kumar; A. K. Goel (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2013)

Chemical characterization of aroma compounds in essential oil isolated from “Holy Basil” (Ocimum tenuiflorum L.) grown in India - Archana P. Raina; Ashok Kumar; M. Dutta (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2013)

Beta-glucan: an ideal immunostimulant in aquaculture (a review) - D. K. Meena; Pronob Das; Shailesh Kumar; S. C. Mandal; A. K. Prusty; S. K. Singh; M. S. Akhtar; B. K. Behera; Kundan Kumar; A. K. Pal; S. C. Mukherjee (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2013)

Tropical storm off Myanmar coast sweeps reefs in Ritchie’s Archipelago, Andaman - P. Krishnan; Grinson Grinson-George; N. Vikas; Titus Titus-Immanuel; M. P. Goutham-Bharathi; A. Anand; K. Vinod Kumar; S. Senthil Kumar (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2013)

Towards scale-up and regulatory shelf-stability testing of curcumin encapsulated polyester nanoparticles - Charitra N. Grama; Vinod P. Venkatpurwar; Dimitrios A. Lamprou; M. N. V. Ravi Kumar (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2013)

Genetic analysis and mapping of seedling resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in ‘Steele-ND’/‘ND 735’ bread wheat population - M. Mergoum; V. Harilal; P. Singh; T. Adhikari; A. Kumar; F. Ghavami; E. Elias; M. Alamri; S. Kianian (Cereal Research Communications, 2013)

Biochemical Phenotyping of Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merill] Genotypes to Establish the Role of Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant Enzymes in Seed Longevity - Jagadish Hosamani; M. Dadlani; I. M. Santha; M. B. Arun Kumar; Sherry Rachel Jacob (Agricultural Research, 2013)

A Review of Polymeric Refabrication Techniques to Modify Polymer Properties for Biomedical and Drug Delivery Applications - Viness Pillay; Ahmed Seedat; Yahya E. Choonara; Lisa C. du Toit; Pradeep Kumar; Valence M. K. Ndesendo (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2013)

Design of an Interpolyelectrolyte Gastroretentive Matrix for the Site-Specific Zero-Order Delivery of Levodopa in Parkinson’s Disease - Ndidi C. Ngwuluka; Yahya E. Choonara; Girish Modi; Lisa C. du Toit; Pradeep Kumar; Valence M. K. Ndesendo; Viness Pillay (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2013)

Numerical modelling on fate and transport of nitrate in an unsaturated system under non-isothermal condition - M. Berlin; G. Suresh Kumar; Indumathi M. Nambi (European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2013)

Simulation of Trajectories of Tar Ball Transport to the Goa Coast - V. Suneel; P. Vethamony; K. Vinod Kumar; M. T. Babu; K. V. S. R. Prasad (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2013)

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 4,5-dihydropyrazole derivatives as potent anticancer and antimicrobial agents - Y. Rajendra Prasad; G. V. Suresh Kumar; S. M. Chandrashekar (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Tiron and trolox potentiate the autophagic cell death induced by magnolol analog Ery5 by activation of Bax in HL-60 cells - Suresh Kumar; Ajay Kumar; Anup Singh Pathania; Santosh Kumar Guru; Srinivas Jada; Parduman Raj Sharma; Shashi Bhushan; Ajit Kumar Saxena; H. M. Sampath Kumar; Fayaz Malik (Apoptosis, 2013)

Effect of micronutrient supplementation around calving on the plasma cortisol levels of Murrah buffaloes and Sahiwal and Karan Fries cows - Ajay Kumar Dang; Manu Jamwal; Mandheer Kaur; Shiv Prasad Kimothi; Shashi Pal; Kalyan De; Mohsin M. Pathan; Dilip K. Swain; Sushil K. Mohapatra; Suman Kapila; Rajeev Kapila; Harjit Kaur; et al. (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2013)

Erratum to: Attenuation of Aβ-induced neurotoxicity by thymoquinone via inhibition of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress - Andleeb Khan; Kumar Vaibhav; Hayate Javed; Mohd. Moshahid Khan; Rizwana Tabassum; Md. Ejaz Ahmed; Pallavi Srivastava; Gulrana Khuwaja; Farah Islam; Mohd. Saeed Siddiqui; Mohammed M. Safhi; Fakhrul Islam (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2013)

Study of atmospheric stagnation, recirculation and ventilation potential at Narora Atomic Power Station NPP site - Deepak Kumar; Avinash Kumar; Vimal Kumar; Jaivender Kumar; P. M Ravi (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2013)

Identification and characterization of a novel scFv recognizing human and mouse CD133 - Suresh Kumar Swaminathan; Lin Niu; Nate Waldron; Steve Kalscheuer; David M. Zellmer; Michael R. Olin; John R. Ohlfest; Daniel A. Vallera; Jayanth Panyam (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2013)

Immunotoxin targeting CD133+ breast carcinoma cells - John R. Ohlfest; David M. Zellmer; Jayanth Panyam; Suresh Kumar Swaminathan; Seunguk Oh; Nate N. Waldron; Shoko Toma; Daniel A. Vallera (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2013)

TropFlux wind stresses over the tropical oceans: evaluation and comparison with other products - B. Praveen Kumar; J. Vialard; M. Lengaigne; V. S. N. Murty; M. J. McPhaden; M. F. Cronin; F. Pinsard; K. Gopala Reddy (Climate Dynamics, 2013)

Membrane filtration of chlorination and extraction stage bleach plant effluent in Indian paper Industry - Sudheer Kumar Shukla; Vivek Kumar; Taesung Kim; M. C. Bansal (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2013)

Molecular Characterization of Primary Gene Pool of Chickpea Based on ISSR Markers - Pooja Choudhary; Suruchi M. Khanna; Pradeep K. Jain; Chellapilla Bharadwaj; Jitendra Kumar; Pramesh C. Lakhera; Ramamurthy Srinivasan (Biochemical Genetics, 2013)

Effects of C:N ratio and substrate integration on periphyton biomass, microbial dynamics and growth of Penaeus monodon juveniles - P. S. Shyne Anand; Sujeet Kumar; A. Panigrahi; T. K. Ghoshal; J. Syama Dayal; G. Biswas; J. K. Sundaray; D. De; R. Ananda Raja; A. D. Deo; S. M. Pillai; P. Ravichandran (Aquaculture International, 2013)

Heavy metal-induced oxidative damage, defense reactions, and detoxification mechanisms in plants - Oksana Sytar; Abhay Kumar; Dariusz Latowski; Paulina Kuczynska; Kazimierz Strzałka; M. N. V. Prasad (Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2013)

Analysis of rainfall and temperature trends in northeast India - S. K. Jain; Vijay Kumar; M. Saharia (International Journal of Climatology, 2013)
The northeast region (NER) of India covers an area of 0.26 million km 2 . This region is one of the highest rainfall‐receiving regions on the planet. Consequently, it has huge water and hydropower potential and analysis of rainfall and temperature trends would be of interest to water and energy planners. Trends in monthly, seasonal, and annual rainfall and temperature on the subdivision and regional scale for the NER were examined in this study. Trend analysis of rainfall data series for 1871–2008 did not show any clear trend for the region as a whole, although there are seasonal trends for some seasons and for some hydro‐meteorological subdivisions. Similar analysis for temperature data showed that all the four temperature variables (maximum, minimum, and mean temperatures and temperature range) had rising trend. Notably for the post‐monsoon season, the Sen's estimator of slope ( °C/year) was 0.019, 0.011, and 0.015 for the maximum, minimum, and mean temperature, respectively. Copyright © 2012 Royal Meteorological Society

Influence of winds on temporally varying short and long period gravity waves in the near shore regions of the eastern Arabian Sea - J. Glejin; V. Sanil Kumar; T. M. Balakrishnan Nair; J. Singh (Ocean Science, 2013)
Wave data collected off Ratnagiri, west coast of India, during 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2012 are used in this study. Seasonal and annual variations in wave data controlled by the local wind system such as sea breeze and land breeze, and remote wind generated long period waves are also studied. The role of sea breeze on the sea state during pre- and postmonsoon seasons is studied and it is found that the maximum wave height is observed at 15:00 UTC during the premonsoon season, with an estimated difference in time lag of 1–2 h in maximum wave height between premonsoon and postmonsoon seasons. Observed waves are classified in to (i) short waves (Tp 13 s) based on peak period (Tp) and the percentages of occurrence of each category are estimated. Long period waves are observed mainly during the pre- and the postmonsoon seasons. During the southwest monsoon period, the waves with period > 13 s are a minimum. An event during 2011 is identified as swells propagated from the Southern Ocean with an estimated travelling time of 5–6 days. The swells reaching the Arabian Sea from the south Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean, due to storms during the pre- and postmonsoon periods, modify the near surface winds due to higher phase wave celerity than the wind speed. Estimation of inverse wave age using large-scale winds such as NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) reflects the presence of cyclonic activity during pre- and postmonsoon seasons but not the effect of the local sea breeze/land breeze wind system.

In silico biological activity of steroids from the marine sponge Axinella carteri - V. Anuradha; K. Byju; Rosmine Emilda; Gopinath Anu; S. M. Nair; N. Chandramohanakumar; K. J. Prashob Peter; T. R. Gireesh Kumar; G. Vasundhara (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Microbial Community Structure at Different Fermentation Stages of Kutajarista, a Herbal Formulation - Himanshu Kumar; Prashant Kumar Pandey; V. V. Doiphode; Sanjay Vir; K. K. Bhutani; M. S. Patole; Y. S. Shouche (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2013)

Usefulness of multiplex PCR in the diagnosis of genital tuberculosis in females with infertility - M. M. Sankar; P. Kumar; A. Munawwar; M. Kumar; J. Singh; A. Singh; D. Parashar; N. Malhotra; S. Duttagupta; S. Singh (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2013)

Response surface modelling of Cr6+ adsorption from aqueous solution by neem bark powder: Box–Behnken experimental approach - M. P. Saravana Kumar; B. R. Phanikumar (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013)

Chromium removal from water by activated carbon developed from waste rubber tires - Vinod Kumar Gupta; Imran Ali; Tawfik A. Saleh; M. N. Siddiqui; Shilpi Agarwal (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013)

Thermally Triggered Mucoadhesive In Situ Gel of Loratadine: β-Cyclodextrin Complex for Nasal Delivery - Reena M. P. Singh; Anil Kumar; Kamla Pathak (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2013)

High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales - R. A. Healy; M. E. Smith; G. M. Bonito; D. H. Pfister; Z. ‐W. Ge; G. G. Guevara; G. Williams; K. Stafford; L. Kumar; T. Lee; C. Hobart; J. Trappe; et al. (Molecular Ecology, 2013)
Fungal mitospores may function as dispersal units and/ or spermatia and thus play a role in distribution and/or mating of species that produce them. Mitospore production in ectomycorrhizal (EcM) Pezizales is rarely reported, but here we document mitospore production by a high diversity of EcM Pezizales on three continents, in both hemispheres. We sequenced the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and partial large subunit (LSU) nuclear rDNA from 292 spore mats (visible mitospore clumps) collected in Argentina, Chile, China, Mexico and the USA between 2009 and 2012. We collated spore mat ITS sequences with 105 fruit body and 47 EcM root sequences to generate operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Phylogenetic inferences were made through analyses of both molecular data sets. A total of 48 OTUs from spore mats represented six independent EcM Pezizales lineages and included truffles and cup fungi. Three clades of seven OTUs have no known meiospore stage. Mitospores failed to germinate on sterile media, or form ectomycorrhizas on Quercus, Pinus and Populus seedlings, consistent with a hypothesized role of spermatia. The broad geographic range, high frequency and phylogenetic diversity of spore mats produced by EcM Pezizales suggests that a mitospore stage is important for many species in this group in terms of mating, reproduction and/or dispersal.

Friend or foe: genetic and functional characterization of plant endophytic P seudomonas aeruginosa - A. Kumar; A. Munder; R. Aravind; S. J. Eapen; B. Tümmler; J. M. Raaijmakers (Environmental Microbiology, 2013)
Summary Endophytic P seudomonas aeruginosa strain BP 35 was originally isolated from black pepper grown in the rain forest in K erala, I ndia. Strain PaBP 35 was shown to provide significant protection to black pepper against infections by P hytophthora capsici and R adopholus similis . For registration and implementation in disease management programmes, several traits of PaBP 35 were investigated including its endophytic behaviour, biocontrol activity, phylogeny and toxicity to mammals. The results showed that PaBP 35 efficiently colonized black pepper shoots and displayed a typical spatiotemporal pattern in its endophytic movement with concomitant suppression of P hytophthora rot. Confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed high populations of PaBP 35:: gfp2 inside tomato plantlets, supporting its endophytic behaviour in other plant species. Polyphasic approaches to genotype PaBP 35, including BOX‐PCR , rec N sequence analysis, multilocus sequence typing and comparative genome hybridization analysis, revealed its uniqueness among P . aeruginosa strains representing clinical habitats. However, like other P . aeruginosa strains, PaBP 35 exhibited resistance to antibiotics, grew at 25–41° C and produced rhamnolipids and phenazines. PaBP 35 displayed strong type II secretion effectors‐mediated cytotoxicity on mammalian A 549 cells. Coupled with pathogenicity in a murine airway infection model, we conclude that this plant endophytic strain is as virulent as clinical P . aeruginosa strains. Safety issues related to the selection of plant endophytic bacteria for crop protection are discussed.

Sunlight-enhanced calcareous deposition on cathodic stainless steel in natural seawater - M. Eashwar; P. Sathish Kumar; R. Ravishankar; G. Subramanian (Biofouling, 2013)

Response to comment on inundation studies for Nagapattinam region on the east coast of India due to tsunamigenic earthquakes from the Andaman region - Kirti Srivastava; R. Krishna Kumar; M. Swapna; V. Swaroop Rani; V. P. Dimri (Natural Hazards, 2013)

Cinnamate 4-Hydroxylase (C4H) genes from Leucaena leucocephala: a pulp yielding leguminous tree - Santosh Kumar; Sumita Omer; Krunal Patel; Bashir M. Khan (Molecular Biology Reports, 2013)

Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of novel 4-isopropylthiazole-4-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole derivatives as potential antimicrobial and antitubercular agents - G. V. Suresh Kumar; Y. Rajendra Prasad; S. M. Chandrashekar (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

AIRS observations of seasonal variability in meridional temperature gradient over Indian region at 100 hPa - A GUPTA; S K DHAKA; V PANWAR; R BHATNAGAR; V KUMAR; SAVITA M DATTA; S K DASH (Journal of Earth System Science, 2013)

A study of vertical cloud structure of the Indian summer monsoon using CloudSat data - M. Rajeevan; P. Rohini; K. Niranjan Kumar; J. Srinivasan; C. K. Unnikrishnan (Climate Dynamics, 2013)

Adsorption behavior of dyes from aqueous solution using agricultural waste: modeling approach - Kumar Rohit Raj; Abhishek Kardam; Jyoti Kumar Arora; Shalini Srivastava; M. M. Srivastava (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2013)

Intensified oxygen minimum zone on the western shelf of Bay of Bengal during summer monsoon: influence of river discharge - V. V. S. S. Sarma; M. S. Krishna; R. Viswanadham; G. D. Rao; V. D. Rao; B. Sridevi; B. S. K. Kumar; V. R. Prasad; Ch. V. Subbaiah; T. Acharyya; D. Bandopadhyay (Journal of Oceanography, 2013)

Global NeuroAIDS Roundtable - Jeymohan Joseph; Cristian L. Achim; Michael J. Boivin; Bruce J. Brew; David B. Clifford; Deborah A. Colosi; Ronald J. Ellis; Robert K. Heaton; Amadou Gallo-Diop; Igor Grant; Georgette D. Kanmogne; Mahendra Kumar; et al. (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2013)

Establishment of medium for laboratory cultivation and maintenance of F redericella sultana for in vivo experiments with T etracapsuloides bryosalmonae ( M yxozoa) - G Kumar; A Abd‐Elfattah; H Soliman; M El‐Matbouli (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2013)
The freshwater bryozoan F redericella sultana ( B lumenbach) is the most common invertebrate host of the myxozoan parasite T etracapsuloides bryosalmonae , the causative agent of proliferative kidney disease in salmonid fish. Culture media play an important role in hatching of statoblasts and maintaining clean bryozoan colonies for M alacosporea research. We developed a novel culture medium, B ryozoan M edium C ( BMC ), for the cultivation and maintenance of F . sultana under laboratory conditions. Statoblasts of F . sultana were successfully hatched to produce transparent‐walled, specific pathogen‐free ( SPF ) colonies that were maintained >12 months in BMC at pH 6.65. T etracapsuloides bryosalmonae was successfully transmitted from infected brown trout, S almo trutta L ., to newly hatched F . sultana colonies in BMC , then from the infected bryozoan to SPF brown trout. This study demonstrated the utility of BMC ( pH 6.65) for hatching statoblasts, long‐term cultivation of clean and transparent bryozoan colonies and maintenance of the T etracapsuloides bryosalmonae life cycle in the laboratory for molecular genetic research and other studies such as host–parasiteinteraction.

Over-expression of a subgroup 4 R2R3 type MYB transcription factor gene from Leucaena leucocephala reduces lignin content in transgenic tobacco - Sumita Omer; Santosh Kumar; Bashir M. Khan (Plant Cell Reports, 2013)

Molecular docking of glycogen synthase kinase3-β inhibitor oleanolic acid and its wound-healing activity in rats - Khadeer B. M. Ahamed; Harish Basavanthappa Gowdru; Sharath Rajashekarappa; Kumar Swamy H. Malleshappa; Venkatarangaiah Krishna (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2013)

Multi-locus DNA fingerprinting and genetic diversity in jute (Corchorus spp.) based on sequence-related amplified polymorphism - M. K. Rana; Kashika Arora; Sonika Singh; Amit Kumar Singh (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2013)

A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments - L. Goddard; A. Kumar; A. Solomon; D. Smith; G. Boer; P. Gonzalez; V. Kharin; W. Merryfield; C. Deser; S. J. Mason; B. P. Kirtman; R. Msadek; et al. (Climate Dynamics, 2013)

Impaired Cerebellar and Limbic Responses to the Valsalva Maneuver in Heart Failure - Jennifer A. Ogren; Paul M. Macey; Rajesh Kumar; Gregg C. Fonarow; Michele A. Hamilton; Ronald M. Harper; Mary A. Woo (The Cerebellum, 2012)

Erratum to: Nanostructured Metal Oxides: Low Temperature Synthesis and Biomimetic Approaches - Sunkara V. Manorama; Pratyay Basak; Rohit Kumar Rana; M. Lakshmi Kantam (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2012)

Effect of mitotic inducers and retinoic acid blocker on expression of pluripotent genes in ES cells derived from early stage in vitro-produced embryos in buffalo - Ashok Kumar; Kuldeep Kumar; Renu Singh; Gopal Puri; R. Ranjan; T. Yasotha; R. K. Singh; M. Sarkar; Sadhan Bag (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 2012)

Alteration in haematological and biochemical parameters of Catla catla exposed to sub-lethal concentration of cypermethrin - T. Vani; N. Saharan; S. D. Roy; Ritesh Ranjan; A. K. Pal; G. M. Siddaiah; Rajesh Kumar (Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2012)

The food security challenge of the food-land-water nexus in India - M. Dinesh Kumar; M. V. K. Sivamohan; A. Narayanamoorthy (Food Security, 2012)

Sibling species in South Indian populations of the rufous horse-shoe bat Rhinolophus rouxii - Balaji Chattopadhyay; Kritika M. Garg; Vinoth Kumar A. K.; Paramanantha Swami Doss D.; Uma Ramakrishnan; Sripathi Kandula (Conservation Genetics, 2012)

Light-induced dissociation of antenna complexes in the symbionts of scleractinian corals correlates with sensitivity to coral bleaching - R. Hill; A. W. D. Larkum; O. Prášil; D. M. Kramer; M. Szabó; V. Kumar; P. J. Ralph (Coral Reefs, 2012)

Influence of copy number on the expression levels of pandemic influenza hemagglutinin recombinant protein in methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris - T. N. Athmaram; Shweta Saraswat; Anil Kumar Singh; M. Kameswara Rao; N. Gopalan; V. V. S. Suryanarayana; P. V. L. Rao (Virus Genes, 2012)

Targeted genome enrichment for efficient purification of endosymbiont DNA from host DNA - Sandrine Geniez; Jeremy M. Foster; Sanjay Kumar; Bouziane Moumen; Emily LeProust; Owen Hardy; Moraima Guadalupe; Stephen J. Thomas; Braden Boone; Cynthia Hendrickson; Didier Bouchon; Pierre Grève; et al. (Symbiosis, 2012)

Assessment of certain wood quality parameters of selected genotypes of Melia dubia Cav. grown in a seedling seed orchard - S. K. Sharma; S. R. Shukla; M. Sujatha; S. Shashikala; P. Kumar (Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science, 2012)

Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Sweet Orange [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] Cultivars of India Using Morphological and RAPD Markers - S. K. Malik; M. R. Rohini; Susheel Kumar; Ravish Choudhary; Digvender Pal; Rekha Chaudhury (Agricultural Research, 2012)

Modeling of Tomato Seedling Growth in Greenhouse - Manoj Kumar Gupta; Pitam Chandra; D. V. K. Samuel; Balraj Singh; Awani Singh; M. K. Garg (Agricultural Research, 2012)

Chronotype differences in Drosophila are enhanced by semi-natural conditions - Koustubh M. Vaze; Nisha N. Kannan; L. Abhilash; Vijay Kumar Sharma (The Science of Nature, 2012)

Influence of pesticides and application methods on pest and predatory arthropods associated with cotton - Rishi Kumar; S. Kranthi; M. Nitharwal; S. L. Jat; D. Monga (Phytoparasitica, 2012)

Surface-Engineered Nanoliposomes by Chelating Ligands for Modulating the Neurotoxicity Associated with β-Amyloid Aggregates of Alzheimer’s disease - Maluta S. Mufamadi; Yahya E. Choonara; Pradeep Kumar; Girish Modi; Dinesh Naidoo; Valence M. K. Ndesendo; Lisa C. du Toit; Sunny E. Iyuke; Viness Pillay (Pharmaceutical Research, 2012)

Synthesis, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity evaluation of some mono- and bis-Schiff’s bases - Sham M. Sondhi; Surbhi Arya; Reshma Rani; Nikhil Kumar; Partha Roy (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

UV-Visible Photoluminescence of TiO2 Nanoparticles Prepared by Hydrothermal Method - S. Mathew; Amit kumar Prasad; Thomas Benoy; P. P. Rakesh; Misha Hari; T. M Libish; P. Radhakrishnan; V. P. N. Nampoori; C. P. G. Vallabhan (Journal of Fluorescence, 2012)

Identification of dominant and recessive genes for resistance to Fusarium wilt in pigeonpea and their implication in breeding hybrids - K. B. Saxena; R. V. Kumar; R. K. Saxena; M. Sharma; R. K. Srivastava; R. Sultana; R. K. Varshney; M. I. Vales; S. Pande (Euphytica, 2012)

Is an onset vortex important for monsoon onset over Kerala? - M. R. Ramesh Kumar; Syam Sankar; Chris Reason (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2012)

Determination of Q β(f) in Different Parts of Kumaon Himalaya from the Inversion of Spectral Acceleration Data - A. Joshi; P. Kumar; M. Mohanty; A. R. Bansal; V. P. Dimri; R. K. Chadha (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2012)

Nanostructured Metal Oxides: Low Temperature Synthesis and Biomimetic Approaches - Sunkara V. Manorama; Pratyay Basak; Rohit Kumar Rana; M. Lakshmi Kantam (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2012)

Coastal circulation along the central west coast of India during cyclone Phyan: measurements and numerical simulations - K. Vinod Kumar; V. M. Aboobacker; P. P. Saheed; P. Vethamony (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Attenuation of Aβ-induced neurotoxicity by thymoquinone via inhibition of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress - Andleeb Khan; Kumar Vaibhav; Hayate Javed; Mohd. Moshahid Khan; Rizwana Tabassum; Md. Ejaz Ahmed; Pallavi Srivastava; Gulrana Khuwaja; Farah Islam; Mohd. Saeed Siddiqui; Mohammed M. Shafi; Fakhrul Islam (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2012)

Synthesis anti-inflammatory and anticancer activity evaluation of some pyrazole and oxadiazole derivatives - Sham M. Sondhi; Sandeep Kumar; Nikhil Kumar; Partha Roy (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

Plant Biotechnology for Food Security: New Frontiers - T. R. Sharma; M. L. Lodha; P. Ananda Kumar; R. Srinivasan; S. R. Bhat; C. Viswanathan (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2012)

Behaviour of REEs in a tropical estuary and adjacent continental shelf of southwest coast of India: Evidence from anomalies - P M DEEPULAL; T R GIREESH KUMAR; C H SUJATHA (Journal of Earth System Science, 2012)

Co+–H interaction inspired alternate coordination geometries of biologically important cob(I)alamin: possible structural and mechanistic consequences for methyltransferases - Manoj Kumar; Hajime Hirao; Pawel M. Kozlowski (JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2012)

Genetic structure and diversity of India hybrid tea - S. N. Raina; P. S. Ahuja; R. K. Sharma; S. C. Das; P. Bhardwaj; R. Negi; V. Sharma; S. S. Singh; R. K. Sud; R. K. Kalia; V. Pandey; J. Banik; et al. (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2012)

Erratum to: Chemometric study on the trace metal accumulation in the sediments of the Cochin Estuary―Southwest coast of India - P. M. Deepulal; T. R. Gireesh kumar; C. H. Sujatha; Rejomon George (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2012)

Chemometric study on the trace metal accumulation in the sediments of the Cochin Estuary―Southwest coast of India - P. M. Deepulal; T. R. Gireesh kumar; C. H. Sujatha; Rejomon George (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2012)

Factors affecting micropropagation and acclimatization of an elite clone of Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm. - Diwakar Aggarwal; Anil Kumar; Jagriti Sharma; M. Sudhakara Reddy (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2012)

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Dependency of Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. - G. Renuka; M. S. Rao; V. Praveen Kumar; M. Ramesh; Sanditi Ram Reddy (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 2012)

Drought hazard assessment using geoinformatics over parts of Chotanagpur plateau region, Jharkhand, India - Swati Pandey; A. C. Pandey; M. S. Nathawat; Manoj Kumar; N. C. Mahanti (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Sensitivity of inland decay of North Atlantic tropical cyclones to soil parameters - Chandra M. Kishtawal; Dev Niyogi; Anil Kumar; Monica Laureano Bozeman; Olivia Kellner (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Hydrogeochemical Modelling for Groundwater in Neyveli Aquifer, Tamil Nadu, India, Using PHREEQC: A Case Study - S. Chidambaram; P. Anandhan; M. V. Prasanna; AL. Ramanathan; K. Srinivasamoorthy; G. Senthil Kumar (Natural Resources Research, 2012)

Functional characterization and differential expression studies of squalene synthase from Withania somnifera - Neha Gupta; Poonam Sharma; R. J. Santosh Kumar; Rishi K. Vishwakarma; B. M. Khan (Molecular Biology Reports, 2012)

Regulation of insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins by thyroid stimulating hormone in human osteoblast-like (SaOS2) cells - G. Ramajayam; R. C. Vignesh; S. Karthikeyan; K. Senthil Kumar; G. D. Karthikeyan; S. Veni; M. Sridhar; J. Arunakaran; M. Michael Aruldhas; N. Srinivasan (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2012)

Novel glitazones: glucose uptake and cytotoxic activities, and structure–activity relationships - B. R. Prashantha Kumar; S. Santhosh Kumar; Patel Viral; Ashish Wadhwani; R. Vadivelan; M. N. Satish Kumar; K. Elango; M. J. Nanjan (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

Orally Administered Therapeutic Peptide Delivery: Enhanced Absorption Through the Small Intestine Using Permeation Enhancers - Viness Pillay; Angus R. Hibbins; Yahya E. Choonara; Lisa C. du Toit; Pradeep Kumar; Valence M. K. Ndesendo (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2012)

Antibodies that cross-neutralize the tier-2 pseudoviruses are produced in antiretroviral-naïve HIV-1-infected children from northern India - S. S. Prakash; R. Andrabi; R. Kumar; R. Lodha; S. K. Kabra; M. Vajpayee; K. Luthra (Archives of Virology, 2012)

Increasing Precision of Even Otherwise Well-Run Trials by Capturing Heterogeneity of Plot Error Variances - M. Singh; M. van Ginkel; A. Sarker; R. S. Malhotra; M. Imtiaz; S. Kumar (Agricultural Research, 2012)

Inundation studies for Nagapattinam region on the east coast of India due to tsunamigenic earthquakes from the Andaman region - Kirti Srivastava; R. Krishna Kumar; M. Swapna; V. Swaroopa Rani; V. P. Dimri (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Piperine suppresses cerebral ischemia–reperfusion-induced inflammation through the repression of COX-2, NOS-2, and NF-κB in middle cerebral artery occlusion rat model - Kumar Vaibhav; Pallavi Shrivastava; Hayate Javed; Andleeb Khan; Md. Ejaz Ahmed; Rizwana Tabassum; Mohd. Moshahid Khan; Gulrana Khuwaja; Farah Islam; M. Saeed Siddiqui; Mohammed M. Safhi; Fakhrul Islam (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2012)

Impact of vortex-removal from environmental flow in cyclone track prediction using Lagrangian advection model - Sanjeev Kumar Singh; C. M. Kishtawal; Neeru Jaiswal; Randhir Singh; P. K. Pal (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2012)

Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of morpholinyl/piperazinylbenzothiazines - Praveen Kumar Sharma; M. Kumar; Sharad Vats (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

Diversity and relationships of multipurpose seabuckthorn (Hippophae L.) germplasm from the Indian Himalayas as assessed by AFLP and SAMPL markers - S. N. Raina; S. Jain; D. Sehgal; A. Kumar; T. H. Dar; V. Bhat; V. Pandey; S. Vaishnavi; A. Bhargav; V. Singh; V. Rani; R. Tandon; et al. (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2012)

Culture-based detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by a network of European laboratories: an external quality assessment study - M. Gazin; A. Lee; L. Derde; M. Kazma; C. Lammens; M. Ieven; M. Bonten; Y. Carmeli; S. Harbarth; C. Brun-Buisson; H. Goossens; S. Malhotra-Kumar (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2012)

Isoform specific regulation of divalent metal (ion) transporter (DMT1) by proteasomal degradation - Michael D. Garrick; Lin Zhao; Jerome A. Roth; Houbo Jiang; Jian Feng; Natalie J. Foot; Hazel Dalton; Sharad Kumar; Laura M. Garrick (BioMetals, 2012)

Promiscuous mating in the harem‐roosting fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx - KRITIKA M. GARG; BALAJI CHATTOPADHYAY; PARAMANATHA SWAMI DOSS D.; VINOTH KUMAR A.K.; SRIPATHI KANDULA; UMA RAMAKRISHNAN (Molecular Ecology, 2012)
Observations on mating behaviours and strategies guide our understanding of mating systems and variance in reproductive success. However, the presence of cryptic strategies often results in situations where social mating system is not reflective of genetic mating system. We present such a study of the genetic mating system of a harem‐forming bat Cynopterus sphinx where harems may not be true indicators of male reproductive success. This temporal study using data from six seasons on paternity reveals that social harem assemblages do not play a role in the mating system, and variance in male reproductive success is lower than expected assuming polygynous mating. Further, simulations reveal that the genetic mating system is statistically indistinguishable from promiscuity. Our results are in contrast to an earlier study that demonstrated high variance in male reproductive success. Although an outcome of behavioural mating patterns, standardized variance in male reproductive success ( I m ) affects the opportunity for sexual selection. To gain a better understanding of the evolutionary implications of promiscuity for mammals in general, we compared our estimates of I m and total opportunity for sexual selection ( I m / I f , where I f is standardized variance in female reproductive success) with those of other known promiscuous species. We observed a broad range of I m / I f values across known promiscuous species, indicating our poor understanding of the evolutionary implications of promiscuous mating.

Membrane filtration of chlorination and extraction stage bleach plant effluent in Indian paper industry - Sudheer Kumar Shukla; Vivek Kumar; Taesung Kim; M. C. Bansal (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2012)

Assessment of Indian summer monsoon simulation by Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3) - Sukanta Kumar Das; Sanjib Kumar Deb; C. M. Kishtawal; P. K. Pal (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2012)

Track prediction of Indian Ocean cyclones using Lagrangian advection model - Sanjeev Kumar Singh; C. M. Kishtawal; P. K. Pal (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Numerical simulation of cloud burst event on August 05, 2010, over Leh using WRF mesoscale model - M. Sravana Kumar; M. S. Shekhar; S. S. V. S. Rama Krishna; M. R. Bhutiyani; A. Ganju (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Seismicity and source parameters of moderate earthquakes in Sikkim Himalaya - Pinki Hazarika; M. Ravi Kumar (Natural Hazards, 2012)

Estimation of model parameter of Sumatra earthquake using empirical Green’s function technique and generation of hypothetical earthquake scenario for Andaman Island, India - A. Joshi; Pushpa Kumari; Sushil Kumar; M. L. Sharma; A. K. Ghosh; M. K. Agarwal; A. Ravikiran (Natural Hazards, 2012)

QSAR modeling of synthesized 3-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl) 2-phenyl quinazolin-4(3H)-ones as potent antibacterial agents - Pratibha Sharma; Ashok Kumar; Prerna Kumari; Jitendra Singh; M. P. Kaushik (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Major Uropathogens in a Single-Pot Multiplex PCR Assay - B. Padmavathy; R. Vinoth Kumar; Amee Patel; S. Deepika Swarnam; T. Vaidehi; B. M. Jaffar Ali (Current Microbiology, 2012)

Apple, from genome to breeding - M. Troggio; A. Gleave; S. Salvi; D. Chagné; A. Cestaro; S. Kumar; R. N. Crowhurst; S. E. Gardiner (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2012)

Fine mapping of QTLs for rice grain yield under drought reveals sub-QTLs conferring a response to variable drought severities - Shalabh Dixit; B. P. Mallikarjuna Swamy; Prashant Vikram; H. U. Ahmed; M. T. Sta Cruz; Modesto Amante; Dinesh Atri; Hei Leung; Arvind Kumar (Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2012)

Possibilities of Development of Red Rot Resistance in Sugarcane Through Somaclonal Variation - Pankaj Kumar; A. Agarwal; A. K. Tiwari; M. Lal; M. R. A. Jabri (Sugar Tech, 2012)

Synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial activity of 4-amino-1-alkyl pyridinium salts - A. Ilangovan; P. Venkatesan; M. Sundararaman; R. Rajesh Kumar (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

Review of laser speckle-based analysis in medical imaging - Kausik Basak; M. Manjunatha; Pranab Kumar Dutta (Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2012)

Lime muds and their genesis off-Northwestern India during the late Quaternary - V PURNACHANDRA RAO; A ANIL KUMAR; S W A NAQVI; ALLAN R CHIVAS; B SEKAR; PRATIMA M KESSARKAR (Journal of Earth System Science, 2012)

Characteristic features of winter precipitation and its variability over northwest India - R K YADAV; K RUPA KUMAR; M RAJEEVAN (Journal of Earth System Science, 2012)

In silico targeted genome mining and comparative modelling reveals a putative protein similar to an Arabidopsis drought tolerance DNA binding transcription factor in Chromosome 6 of Sorghum bicolor genome - Arun K. Shanker; Adithie Maddaala; M. Anil Kumar; S. K. Yadav; M. Maheswari; B. Venkateswarlu (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2012)

Molecular characterization of Mtb-OMP decarboxylase by modeling, docking and dynamic studies - P. Madhusudana; B. Babajan; M. Chaitanya; C. M. Anuradha; C. Shobharani; Rajasekar Chikati; Chitta Suresh Kumar; K. R. S. Sambasiva Rao; Sudhakar Poda (Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, 2012)

Effect of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Inoculations on Seedling Growth and Biomass Productivity of Two Bamboo Species - Anuradha Jha; Anil Kumar; R. K. Saxena; M. Kamalvanshi; Neha Chakravarty (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2012)

Biotransformation of α-Pinene to Terpineol by Resting Cell Suspension of Absidia corulea - Busi Siddhardha; M. Vijay Kumar; U. S. N. Murty; G. S. Ramanjaneyulu; S. Prabhakar (Indian Journal of Microbiology, 2012)

GGE biplot analysis to evaluate genotype, environment and their interactions in sorghum multi-location data - Sujay Rakshit; K. N. Ganapathy; S. S. Gomashe; A. Rathore; R. B. Ghorade; M. V. Nagesh Kumar; K. Ganesmurthy; S. K. Jain; M. Y. Kamtar; J. S. Sachan; S. S. Ambekar; B. R. Ranwa; et al. (Euphytica, 2012)

Fluoride in the Drinking Water of Nagaur Tehsil of Nagaur District, Rajasthan, India - M. Arif; I. Hussain; J. Hussain; S. Sharma; S. Kumar (Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2012)

Variations in surface ozone and NOx at Kannur: a tropical, coastal site in India - T. Nishanth; M. K. Satheesh Kumar; K. T. Valsaraj (Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2012)

Proteins derived from latex of C. procera maintain coagulation homeostasis in septic mice and exhibit thrombin- and plasmin-like activities - Márcio V. Ramos; Carolina A. Viana; Ayrles F. B. Silva; Cléverson D. T. Freitas; Ingrid S. T. Figueiredo; Raquel S. B. Oliveira; Nylane M. N. Alencar; José V. M. Lima-Filho; Vijay L. Kumar (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2012)

Lack of association between Glu298Asp polymorphism and coronary artery disease in North Indians - Himanshu Rai; Jacqui Fitt; A. K. Sharma; Nakul Sinha; Sudeep Kumar; C. M. Pandey; Suraksha Agrawal; Sarabjit Mastana (Molecular Biology Reports, 2012)

Rigid and flexible docking studies on PPAR-γ agonists: key interactions for a better antihyperglycemic activity and in silico pharmacodynamic activity versus experimental in vivo activity - B. R. Prashantha Kumar; S. Sopna; Jenson Verghese; Bijoy Desai; M. J. Nanjan (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2012)

PEG Coated Biocompatible Cadmium Chalcogenide Quantum Dots for Targeted Imaging of Cancer Cells - Aby Cheruvathoor Poulose; Srivani Veeranarayanan; M. Sheikh Mohamed; Sreejith Raveendran; Yutaka Nagaoka; Yasuhiko Yoshida; Toru Maekawa; D. Sakthi Kumar (Journal of Fluorescence, 2012)

Study of DNA Light Switch Ru(II) Complexes : Synthesis, Characterization, Photocleavage and Antimicrobial Activity - Praveen Kumar Yata; M. Shilpa; P. Nagababu; M. Rajender Reddy; Laxma Reddy Kotha; Nazar Md Gabra; S. Satyanarayana (Journal of Fluorescence, 2012)

Enhanced abundance of tintinnids under elevated CO2 level from coastal Bay of Bengal - Haimanti Biswas; Subhadra Devi Gadi; V. Venkata Ramana; M. Durga Bharathi; R. Kesava Priyan; D. Taruni Manjari; M. Dileep Kumar (Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012)

Population genetic structure of skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis from the Indian coast using sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA D‐loop region - M. R. Menezes; G. Kumar; S. P. Kunal (Journal of Fish Biology, 2012)
Genetic structure of skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis from the Indian region was investigated using sequence data of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D‐loop region. A total of 315 individuals were sampled from six major fishing grounds around the east and west coasts of India including the Andaman (Port Blair) and Lakshadweep (Minicoy) Islands. Nucleotide and gene diversities were high in all the sample collections. Significant genetic heterogeneity was observed for the mtDNA sequence data among sites ( φ ST = 0·0273, P φ CT = 0·0261, P K. pelamis along the Indian coast can thus be rejected. Phylogenetic analysis of the mtDNA sequence data showed the presence of four clades of K. pelamis in the Indian waters. There was no clear pattern, however, of haplotypes and geographic location among samples. The results of this study suggest the occurrence of four genetically differentiated groups of K. pelamis across the coastal waters of India.

Geotechnical Aspects of Clayey Sediments Off Badagara on the Kerala Coast, India - Thomas Mathai; K. N. Rajarama; Satish Kumar; M. Suresh Chandran; M. R. Asoka Kumar (Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2012)

Milk, Milk Products, and Disease Free Health: An Updated Overview - R. Nagpal; P. V. Behare; M. Kumar; D. Mohania; M. Yadav; S. Jain; S. Menon; O. Parkash; F. Marotta; E. Minelli; C. J.K. Henry; H. Yadav (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2012)

Impact of Annular Solar Eclipse of 15 January 2010 on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics Over Thumba: A Case Study - D. Bala Subrahamanyam; T. J. Anurose; Mannil Mohan; M. Santosh; N. V. P. Kiran Kumar; S. Sijikumar (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2012)

Intra- specific variation in response of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.) to elevated CO2 conditions - N. Sunil; M. Vanaja; Vinod Kumar; Jainender; Babu Abraham; K. S. Varaprasad (Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2012)

Molecular characterization of eight Indian Snakehead species (Pisces: Perciformes Channidae) using RAPD markers - Ajaz Ali Bhat; M. A. Haniffa; P. R. Divya; A. Gopalakrishnan; M. James Milton; Raj Kumar; Bilal Ahmad Paray (Molecular Biology Reports, 2012)

Reductive elimination pathway for homocysteine to methionine conversion in cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase - Pawel M. Kozlowski; Takashi Kamachi; Manoj Kumar; Kazunari Yoshizawa (JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2012)

Small cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum Maton.) and ginger (Zingiber officinale Roxb) bacterial wilt is caused by same strain of Ralstonia solanacearum: a result revealed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) - A. Kumar; T. P. Prameela; R. Suseela Bhai; A. Siljo; C. N. Biju; M. Anandaraj; B. A. Vinatzer (European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2012)

TropFlux: air-sea fluxes for the global tropical oceans—description and evaluation - B. Praveen Kumar; J. Vialard; M. Lengaigne; V. S. N. Murty; M. J. McPhaden (Climate Dynamics, 2012)

Bioremediation potential of genus Portulaca L. collected from industrial areas in Vadodara, Gujarat, India - Sanjay Dwivedi; A. Mishra; A. Kumar; P. Tripathi; R. Dave; G. Dixit; K. K. Tiwari; S. Srivastava; M. K. Shukla; R. D. Tripathi (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2012)

Polymorphism in chemokine receptor genes and risk of acute myocardial infarction in North Indian population - Neha Singh; Nakul Sinha; Sudeep Kumar; Chandra M. Pandey; Suraksha Agrawal (Molecular Biology Reports, 2012)

Rainfall Estimation from Combined Observations Using KALPANA-IR and TRMM- Precipitation Radar Measurements over Indian Region - Anoop Kumar Mishra; Rakesh M. Gairola; Vijay K. Agarwal (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2012)

P2X7 Receptor–Pannexin 1 Hemichannel Association: Effect of Extracellular Calcium on Membrane Permeabilization - V. Poornima; M. Madhupriya; S. Kootar; G. Sujatha; Arvind Kumar; Amal Kanti Bera (Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 2012)

Evaluation of GeneOhm VanR and Xpert vanA/vanB molecular assays for the rapid detection of vancomycin-resistant enterococci - M. Gazin; C. Lammens; H. Goossens; S. Malhotra-Kumar (European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2012)

Optimization of a Dual Mechanism Gastrofloatable and Gastroadhesive Delivery System for Narrow Absorption Window Drugs - Caragh Murphy; Viness Pillay; Yahya E. Choonara; Lisa C. du Toit; Valence M. K. Ndesendo; Nthato Chirwa; Pradeep Kumar (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2012)

Ammonium chloride bath treatment as a quarantine measure to prevent spread of Lernaea cyprinacea infection during transfer of fish from affected ponds - A Raghavendra; K P Hemaprasanth; R Singh; N Sridhar; V Kumar; M R Raghunath (Journal of Fish Diseases, 2012)

Phylogenetic study of sponge associated bacteria from the Lakshadweep archipelago and the antimicrobial activities of their secondary metabolites - M. Gopi; T. T. Ajith Kumar; R. Balagurunathan; R. Vinoth; K. V. Dhaneesh; R. Rajasekaran; T. Balasubramanian (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2012)

Effect of formulated root endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria fluorescent pseudomonads R62 and R81 on Vigna mungo - Vinod Kumar; M. V. R. K. Sarma; Krishna Saharan; Rashmi Srivastava; Lalit Kumar; Vikram Sahai; V. S. Bisaria; A. K. Sharma (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2012)

High-density genetic linkage maps with over 2,400 sequence-anchored DArT markers for genetic dissection in an F2 pseudo-backcross of Eucalyptus grandis × E. urophylla - Anand Raj Kumar Kullan; Maria M. van Dyk; Nicoletta Jones; Arnulf Kanzler; Arlene Bayley; Alexander A. Myburg (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2012)

Towards genomic selection in apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) breeding programmes: Prospects, challenges and strategies - Satish Kumar; Marco C. A. M. Bink; Richard K. Volz; Vincent G. M. Bus; David Chagné (Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2012)

Agrobacterium-Mediated In Planta Transformation of Field Bean (Lablab purpureus L.) and Recovery of Stable Transgenic Plants Expressing the cry1AcF Gene - E. Keshamma; Rohini Sreevathsa; A. Manoj Kumar; Kalpana N. Reddy; M. Manjulatha; N. B. Shanmugam; A. R. V. Kumar; M. Udayakumar (Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2012)

Vertical structure of sea-breeze circulation over Thumba (8.5°N, 76.9°E, India) in the winter months and a case study during W-ICARB field experiment - T. J. Anurose; D. Bala Subrahamanyam; C. B. S. Dutt; N. V. P. Kiran Kumar; Sherine Rachel John; Sandhya K. Nair; M. Santosh; Mannil Mohan; P. K. Kunhikrishnan; S. Sijikumar; S. S. Prijith (Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2012)

Initial step of B12-dependent enzymatic catalysis: energetic implications regarding involvement of the one-electron-reduced form of adenosylcobalamin cofactor - Pawel M. Kozlowski; Takashi Kamachi; Manoj Kumar; Kazunari Yoshizawa (JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2012)

Induction of carotenoid pigments in callus cultures of Calendula officinalis L. in response to nitrogen and sucrose levels - M. R. Legha; K. V. Prasad; S. K. Singh; C. Kaur; A. Arora; S. Kumar (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2012)

Analysing the impact of anthropogenic activities on waterlogging dynamics in Indo-Gangetic Plains, northern Bihar, India - A. C. Pandey; Suraj Kumar Singh; M. S. Nathawat (International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012)

Elicitor-enhanced production of gymnemic acid in cell suspension cultures of Gymnema sylvestre R. Br. - V. Veerashree; C. M. Anuradha; Vadlapudi Kumar (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2012)

Comparative transcriptome analysis of AP2/EREBP gene family under normal and hormone treatments, and under two drought stresses in NILs setup by Aday Selection and IR64 - Akhter Most Sharoni; Mohammed Nuruzzaman; Kouji Satoh; Ali Moumeni; Kotb Attia; Ramiah Venuprasad; Rachid Serraj; Arvind Kumar; Hei Leung; A. K. M. Rafiul Islam; Shoshi Kikuchi (Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2012)

New advanced glycation end-products inhibitors from Dichrostachys cinerea Wight & Arn. - G. Suresh; Ashok K. Tiwari; M. Radha Krishna Murthy; D. Anand Kumar; K. Rajendra Prasad; R. Ranga Rao; A. Zehra Ali; K. Suresh Babu (Journal of Natural Medicines, 2012)

Conformational Transitions of the Catalytic Domain of Heme-Regulated Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α Kinase, a Key Translational Regulatory Molecule - R. K. Sreejith; C. G. Suresh; Siddharth H. Bhosale; Varsha Bhavnani; Avinash Kumar; Sushama M. Gaikwad; Jayanta K. Pal (Journal of Fluorescence, 2012)

Aqueous heavy metals removal by adsorption on β-diketone-functionalized styrene–divinylbenzene copolymeric resin - Rajesh Kumar; S. K. Jain; R. K. Misra; M. Kachchwaha; P. K. Khatri (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2012)

Co-benefits of a carbon tax in Nepal - Shree Raj Shakya; S. Kumar; Ram M. Shrestha (Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2012)

Karyology of Barleria grandiflora Dalzell (Acanthaceae), a potential ornamental endemic to Northern-Western Ghats of India - Kumar Vinod C. Gosavi; Manoj M. Lekhak; Arun N. Chandore; Shrirang R. Yadav (The Nucleus, 2011)

Genetic Diversity of Iranian Accessions, Improved Lines of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and Their Wild Relatives by Using Simple Sequence Repeats - Ali Saeed; H. Hovsepyan; R. Darvishzadeh; M. Imtiaz; Siva Kumar Panguluri; R. Nazaryan (Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2011)

Down-regulation of Leucaena leucocephala cinnamoyl CoA reductase (LlCCR) gene induces significant changes in phenotype, soluble phenolic pools and lignin in transgenic tobacco - S. Prashant; M. Srilakshmi Sunita; S. Pramod; Ranadheer K. Gupta; S. Anil Kumar; S. Rao Karumanchi; S. K. Rawal; P. B. Kavi Kishor (Plant Cell Reports, 2011)

Efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. using shoot apices as explant source - Pooja Jha; Shashi; Anjana Rustagi; Pankaj Kumar Agnihotri; Vishvas M. Kulkarni; Vishnu Bhat (Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2011)

MicroRNA-101 Inhibits Growth of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Relieving Chromatin-Mediated Transcriptional Repression of p21waf1/cip1 - Assaad Semaan; Aamer M. Qazi; Shelly Seward; Sreedhar Chamala; Christopher S. Bryant; Sanjeev Kumar; Robert Morris; Christopher P. Steffes; David L. Bouwman; Adnan R Munkarah; Donald W. Weaver; Scott A. Gruber; et al. (Pharmaceutical Research, 2011)

Reviewing host proteins of Rhabdoviridae: Possible leads for lesser studied viruses - A Guleria; M Kiranmayi; R Sreejith; K Kumar; SK Sharma; S Gupta (Journal of Biosciences, 2011)

Protective effects of nanoparticulate coenzyme Q10 and curcumin on inflammatory markers and lipid metabolism in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats: a possible remedy to diabetic complications - Venkat Ratnam Devadasu; Roger M. Wadsworth; M. N. V. Ravi Kumar (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2011)

Processes controlling the surface temperature signature of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in the thermocline ridge of the Indian Ocean - A. Jayakumar; Jérôme Vialard; M. Lengaigne; C. Gnanaseelan; Julian P. McCreary; B. Praveen Kumar (Climate Dynamics, 2011)

Rational utilization of plantation grown Acacia mangium willd - S. K. Sharma; P. Kumar; R. V. Rao; M. Sujatha; S. R. Shukla (Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science, 2011)

Mapping cell fate decisions that occur during soybean defense responses - Prachi D. Matsye; Ranjit Kumar; Parsa Hosseini; Christina M. Jones; Arianne Tremblay; Nadim W. Alkharouf; Benjamin F. Matthews; Vincent P. Klink (Plant Molecular Biology, 2011)