1st Edition

Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights

Edited By Soumya Mukherjee, Piyali Mukherjee, Tariq Aftab Copyright 2024
    458 Pages 15 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Apple Academic Press

    458 Pages 15 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Apple Academic Press

    This new book merges the concepts of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and intellectualproperty rights associated with plant protection and agricultural products. It discusses various strategies associated with crop tolerance to adverse environmental conditions and also highlights the role of agricultural intellectual property rights, along with the implications for plant patents, protection of farmers’ rights, and geographical indication in plant products, to provide a broader outlook toward strategies for sustainable agriculture and global food security associated with IPR.

    The chapters provide an overview of sustainable crop cultivation in traditional agriculture as well as with new biotechnological approaches. The volume explores several stress resilience strategies and issues for crops, considering how to mitigate the effect of increased carbon dioxide concentration, heavy metal pollution, over-salinized soils, and cold spells. It also discusses how to make desert farming more efficient; how to increase abiotic stress tolerance of crops with grafting, seed soaking/priming, soil amendment, and more.

    The chapters on agricultural intellectual property rights address IPR in conjunction with food security, the rights of farmers, legal applications and protection of plant patents, protection of traditional knowledge, international legal issues, and plant variety protection rights in agriculture and more.

    Part I: Sustainable Crop Cultivation

    1. Sustainable Crop Cultivation: A Comprehensive Update

    Chumki Chowdhury

    2. Traditional Agriculture: A Sustainable Approach towards Attaining Food Security

    S. Shweta, B. Subramaniam, Manoj K. Rai, Shagun Danda, Anil Kurmi, and Sandeep Kaushik

    3. Plant Bioactive Compounds: Biotechnological Applications for Novel Molecules

    Atanu Bhattacharjee, Subhasish Debnath, Yutika Nath, and Ranjan Dutta Kalita

    Part II: Stress Resilience Strategies in Crops

    4. Rice Physiology and Sustainability in the Face of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration

    Aditya Banerjee and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

    5. An Analysis of the Physiological and Biochemical Attributes in Tomato Fruits Affected by Salinity Stress

    Mohamed M. El-Mogy and Hany G. Abd El-Gawad

    6. Crop Improvement in Deserts

    Aditya Banerjee and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

    7. Grafting, Seed Soaking/Priming, Soil Amendment, and Foliar Application as Tools to Increase Abiotic Stress Tolerance of Crops

    S. A. Shehata and Mohamed F. M. Ibrahim

    8. Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in Plants: Signaling Responses and Role of Plant-Microbe Association

    Soma Halder Paul

    9. Hydrogen Peroxide as Signaling Molecule in Plant Abiotic Stress

    Ankur Singh and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

    10. Plant Cell During Cold Stress: Sensing, Signaling, and Regulations

    Muhammad A. Zayed and Hala B. Khalil

    Part III: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Implications in Plant Science

    11. Intellectual Property Rights Vis-À-Vis Food Security: A Critical Analysis

    Rishav Ray

    12. Repatriation of Traditional Knowledge through the Lens of International Legal Instruments

    Saransh Chaturvedi

    13. International Convention for Protection of Geographical Indication and Its Application in Agriculture: A Legal Perspectives

    Piyali Mukherjee

    14. Farmers’ Rights: An Indian Scenario

    Pooja Jha Maity and Reetu Sharma

    15. From Green Revolution to Green Innovation: How IP and Trademarks Catalyze Commercialization of Agriculture and Plant Products

    Bibin George Varughese

    16. Delineation of Legal Application and Protection of Plant Patent: A Critical Study

    Piyali Mukherjee

    17. IP Protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE) in Regions of Northeastern India: An Ecological Context

    Sunanda Bharti

    18. International Legal Issues and Plant Variety Protection Rights in Agriculture

    Rashmita Dasgupta and Piyali Mukherjee

    Biography

    Soumya Mukherjee, PhD, is affiliated with the Department of Botany, Jangipur College, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He was formerly with Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India. He has published research and review articles in peer-reviewed international journals and has chapters (plant physiology, abiotic stress signaling) popular articles and book published by national and international publishers. He has been publishing edited volumes on plant signaling, communication (Springer), and root biology and has authored e-learning modules in plant physiology and biochemistry.

    Piyali Mukherjee is affiliated with the West Bengal Bar Council, Kolkata, India. She studied forensic sciences and cyber forensics at the International Forensic Science Institute, Pune, India, and gained expertise in intellectual property rights and patent cooperation treaties at the World Intellectual Property Organization, Switzerland. Her experience in fingerprinting, document examination, and cyber investigations is from the Sherlock Institute of Forensic Sciences, New Delhi. She has published book chapters related to law, humanities, management, and legal perspectives associated with commercially important plants.

    Tariq Aftab, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He was formerly Visiting Scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He was a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, and at Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. He has edited and co-authored several books and has published over 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals.