Contents: I. Taxonomy, diversity, conservation: Foreword. Preface. 1. Legume diversity in India: current status and future prospectus/R.R. Rao and L.B. Chaudhary. 2. Gleditsia L. and Gymnocladus Lam. (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae) in India/M. Sanjappa. 3. Endemism in subtribe Cajaninae (Leguminosae) in India/P. Satyanarayana. 4. Diversity of forms and niches in tropical pasture legumes/J.P. Singh and Vinod Shanker. 5. A conspectus of the Genus Astragalus L. (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae) in India/L.B. Chaudhary and R.R. Rao. 6. Biologically active Leguminous plant genetic resources of Lucknow district/S.C. Singh. 7. Legumes of Tons – Valley in Garhwal Himalaya with special reference to forage legumes/T.S. Rana, Bhaskar Datt and R.R. Rao. 8. Notes on certain endemic legumes (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae) of southern peninsular India/S.M. Rajendran and Ved Prakash. 9. A taxonomic study of the genus Trifolium L. (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae) of India/L.B. Chaudhary and M. Sanjappa. 10. Seedling morphology in the tribe Vicieae (Leguminosae) with reference to taxonomy/N.D. Paria and Dulal Chandra Das. 11. Taxonomic studies on the genus Crotalaria L. in India/A.A. Ansari. 12. Notes on the legume flora of Arunachal Pradesh with special reference to West Kameng district/A. Sharma, K. Haridasan and S.K. Borthakur. 13. Notes on the status of tribe Galegeae (Bronn) Torry and Gray s.l. (Leguminosae) in India/A. Pramanik. 14. Assessment of legume diversity in Haryana/S. Kumar. II. Ethnobotany, phytochemistry, medicinal aspects: 1. The ‘Wealth of India’ as a database for underutilised legumes/N.R. Mankad. 2. Leguminous seeds: potential source of commercial gums/V.P. Kapoor. 3. Exploration of Indian legumes for evaluation of medicinal value/Ved Prakash and S.M. Rajendran. 4. Ethnotherapeutics of some medicinal legumes of India/K.K. Singh. 5. Some wild legumes traditionally used by tribals of northeast India with particular reference to non-conventional edible legumes/Arvind Saklani and R.R. Rao. 6. Tree legumes from western Maharashtra : notes on distribution and utilization/Vinaya S. Ghate. 7. Tree legumes for reclamation of semi arid sodic lands/Bajrang Singh, V.L. Goel and Neeta Srivastava. 8. Legumes of Rajaji National Park, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal : uses and distribution/Anand Prakash and K.K. Singh. 9. Systematic studies on crude drug yielding legumes from eastern ghats of Andhra Pradesh/R.R. Venkata Raju. 10. Studies on some Leguminuous plants in Ayurveda/Kaushal Kumar, R.R. Rao and K.K. Singh. 11. Pufa and Mufa rich oils from Leguminosae/R. Banerji. 12. Ethnic uses of Korhila (Aeschynomene sp.) in Mithila (North Bihar), India/Vidyanath Jha and Arvinda Kumar Jha. 13. Trigonella foenum-graecum – a potential plant of Leguminosae/B.S. Dixit and R. Banerji. 14. Some medicinal important Leguminous taxa to mankind/Shanta Mehrotra, Sayyada Khatoon and A.K.S. Rawat. III. Genetics, breeding, molecular aspects: 1. Genetic analysis of seed and seedling characteristics in Acacia mangium and A. auriculiformis/Mohan Varghese, M. Hegde, S. Lalitha, S. Bhuvaneshwari and R. Hegde. 2. Reaction of Rajmash genotypes against major insect pests and its reflection in grain yield/M.I. Khan. 3. Isoenzyme variation in Tamarindus indica L./A. Shanthi, S.S.R. Bennet and A. Stephen Harris. 4. Generation and exploitation of genetic variation through interspecific crosses in chickpea/Archana Singh, N.P. Singh and A.N. Asthana. 5. Utilisation of wild germplasm for the improvement of pigeonpea/R.N. Pandey and S.E. Panwar. 6. Variation in growth and morphology of four species of phyllodinous Acacias/Mohan Varghese, R. Hegde, R. Kannan and S.S.R. Bennet. 7. Pollination management perspectives of under – utilized legumes in India/D. Sarveswara Rao, Sonika and Prem Prakash. 8. Biometrical approach to breed desired plant types in winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC)./S.P. Singh, S. Shukla and D. Ohri. 9. Molecular diversity among isolates of bean common mosaic virus and blackeye cowpea mosaic virus/Jawaid A. Khan. 10. Development of efficient in vitro regeneration system in chickpea amenable to direct genetic transformation/Leena Tripathi and D.V. Amla. 11. Development of microsatellite markers for Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek: characterization of some clones containing Tri-Nucleotide repeat microsatellite/S. Singh and N. Jawali. 12. Inter-species affinities in the genus Prosopis based on RAPD profiles/Shirish Anand Ranade and Mamta Goswami. 13. Biosystematics of Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. (Pigeonpea) and its wild relatives/D. Ohri and S.S. Jha. 14. Crossability barriers between cultivated and wild species of Cicer/Malti Gupta and K.R. Shivanna. 15. Prominent non-traditional pulses of Orissa – scope of improvements/C. Mohrana, B.C. Misra, S. Pattnaik and M.R. Panigrahi.