Fishes currently assigned to Pethia gelius Hamilton from West Bengal are shown to belong to a closely-related group of three species: P gelius, its erstwhile synonym P canius Hamilton and a new species, P aurea. The three species are distinguished from all other species of Pethia by having the lateral line incomplete, with 3-4 pored scales; 20-26 scales in lateral series on body; ½4-5/l/2-3½ sc...

A monospecific antiserum to tobacco plastocyanin agglutinates stroma-free swellable chloroplasts from wild type tobacco, (Nicotiana tobacum var. John William's Broadleaf) from the tobacco aurea mutant Su/su2, (Nicotiana tabacum var. Su/su2) from Antirrhinum majus and spinach (Spinacia oleracea). In this condition the antiserum inhibits linear photosynthetic electron flow in tobacco and spinach ...