Crop Sustainability and Intellectual Property Rights

ISBN-13: 9781774913192 / Angielski

Soumya Mukherjee; Piyali Mukherjee; Tariq Aftab

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part I: Sustainable Crop Cultivation 1. Sustainable Crop Cultivation: A Comprehensive Update 2. Traditional Agriculture: A Sustainable Approach towards Attaining Food Security 3. Plant Bioactive Compounds: Biotechnological Applications for Novel Molecules Part II: Stress Resilience Strategies in Crops 4. Rice Physiology and Sustainability in the Face of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration 5. An Analysis of the Physiological and Biochemical Attributes in Tomato Fruits Affected by Salinity Stress 6. Crop Improvement in Deserts 7. Grafting, Seed Soaking/Priming, Soil Amendment, and Foliar Application as Tools to Increase Abiotic Stress Tolerance of Crops 8. Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in Plants: Signaling Responses and Role of Plant-Microbe Association 9. Hydrogen Peroxide as Signaling Molecule in Plant Abiotic Stress 10. Plant Cell During Cold Stress: Sensing, Signaling, and Regulations Part III: Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Implications in Plant Science 11. Intellectual Property Rights Vis-À-Vis Food Security: A Critical Analysis 12. Repatriation of Traditional Knowledge through the Lens of International Legal Instruments 13. International Convention for Protection of Geographical Indication and Its Application in Agriculture: A Legal Perspectives 14. Farmers’ Rights: An Indian Scenario 15. From Green Revolution to Green Innovation: How IP and Trademarks Catalyze Commercialization of Agriculture and Plant Products 16. Delineation of Legal Application and Protection of Plant Patent: A Critical Study 17. IP Protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE) in Regions of Northeastern India: An Ecological Context 18. International Legal Issues and Plant Variety Protection Rights in Agriculture

O autorze

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.