Agriculture & Allied Sciences

Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights
Editors: Soumya Mukherjee, PhD
Piyali Mukherjee, B.B.A. LL.B, PGDFSCF
Tariq Aftab, PhD

Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: August 2023
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774913192
E-Book ISBN: 9781003383024
Pages: 458pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 15 color and 7 b/w illustrations

This book, Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights, merges the concepts of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and intellectual property rights associated with plant protection and agricultural products.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the perspectives of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and various strategies associated with crop tolerance to adverse environmental conditions. It 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 a variety of ways, with both 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 foliar applications; 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.

The book will be valuable for academicians and researchers at universities and research institutes working on stress physiology, genomics, proteomics, genetic engineering, breeding, and sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, lawyers, policymakers, and legal executives associated with agriculture and plant science will find useful information as well.

CONTENTS:
Preface

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

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Soumya Mukherjee, PhD
Department of Botany, Jangipur College, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India

Soumya Mukherjee, PhD, is currently 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 also worked as a CSIR research fellow in abiotic stress physiology of plants. He has published both research and review articles in various peer-reviewed international journals (SCOPUS and SCI indexed). He has contributed various chapters (plant physiology, abiotic stress signaling) and popular articles to various books published by national and international publishers. He has been publishing edited volumes on plant signaling, communication (Springer), and root biology (Springer). He has authored e-learning modules in plant physiology and biochemistry published as an effort of the National Mission on Education through ICT (an MHRD Project undertaken by the University of Delhi). He has acted as a subject reviewer of several peer-reviewed international journals on plant science. He has presented brief research works at international and state-level conferences in India and abroad. Currently he is focused on undergraduate teaching to botany (Hons.) and life science students in various fundamental areas of plant physiology. He continues to work on salt-stress physiology associated with the aspects of hormone signaling and biomolecular crosstalk in plants. Dr. Mukherjee earned his PhD at the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, India.

Piyali Mukherjee, B.B.A. LL.B, PGDFSCF
West Bengal Bar Council, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Piyali Mukherjee is B.B.A. LL.B, PGDFSCF with the West Bengal Bar Council, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, since 2017. She has earned a postgraduate diploma in forensic sciences and cyber forensics from the International Forensic Science Institute, Pune, India. She has gained her specialization in intellectual property rights and patent cooperation treaty from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland. She gained experience in the field of fingerprinting, document examination, and cyber investigations from the Sherlock Institute of Forensic Sciences, New Delhi, India. To her credit she has developed various course content and published book chapters related to law, humanities, management, and legal perspectives associated with commercially important plants.

Tariq Aftab, PhD
Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India

Tariq Aftab, PhD, is currently with the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, from which he earned his PhD. He formerly worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is a member of various scientific associations in India and abroad. He has edited seven books with international publishers, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group); co-authored several book chapters; and published over 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, and molecular studies on medicinal and aromatic plants. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. After completing his doctorate, he has worked as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, and as Post-doctorate Fellow at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.




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