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.
About the Author: 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.
