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SUMMARY:Reconsidering Japan's Plant Patent Movement: National Histories\, Colonial Legacies\, and Transpacific Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kjell Ericson from Kyoto University. \nA movement calling for plants to be treated as patentable inventions emerged in 1970s Japan. Among the loudest proponents of reform were people who had long engaged in the breeding and propagation of fruits and flowers\, in certain cases far beyond Japan’s post-1945 borders. My presentation contextualizes the activities of the plant patent movement these breeders and propagators joined. \nAlthough United States plant patent precedents loomed large in Japanese debates\, the issue was not simply one of borrowing existing legal frameworks. Rather\, ideas of plant patenting were enmeshed in complex histories of migration\, settler colonialism\, and agricultural improvement. The implementation of a non-patent based Japanese plant variety protection system split opinion within the plant patent movement and contributed to its breakup by the early 1980s. Even so\, several of the movement’s former members later became involved in a widely publicized dispute over the patentability of a fruit tree: a peach variety with roots in colonial-era Korea. In tracing Japan’s plant patent movement alongside plants and people in motion\, this presentation reconsiders issues of ownership and state power beyond nationally framed histories of plant variety protection alone. \nBiography\nKjell Ericson is a Program-Specific Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University’s Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research and teaches history in the Kyoto-Heidelberg Joint Degree in Transcultural Studies (JDTS) Program. His research interests are in histories of environment\, technology\, and law\, in and around the Japanese archipelago. An in-progress monograph project examines Japan’s southern Mie Prefecture\, a region that was once the global center of saltwater pearl cultivation. His publications include contributions to multiple edited volumes and research articles in Technology and Culture\, Zinbun\, and the Journal of the History of Biology. \n \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory\, sacred forms of sustenance\, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously\, they may be repositories of gene sequences\, Indigenous knowledge\, bulk commodities\, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plants-as-property-in-twentieth-century-japan-national-histories-colonial-legacies-and-transpacific-dynamics/
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CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Cade Kane
DESCRIPTION:Cade Kane\nAbscisic acid can augment\, but is not essential for autumnal leaf senescence\nSenescence vividly marks the onset of the final stages of the life of a leaf\, yet the triggers and drivers of this process are still not fully understood. The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is an important regulator of leaf senescence in model herbs\, but the function of this hormone has not been widely tested in deciduous trees. Here we investigate the importance of ABA as a driver of leaf senescence in winter deciduous trees.  In four diverse species we tracked leaf gas exchange\, water potential\, chlorophyll content\, and foliage ABA levels from the end of summer until leaves were abscised or died. We found that no change in ABA levels occurred at the onset of chlorophyll decline or throughout the duration of leaf senescence. To test whether ABA could enhance leaf senescence we girdled the branches to disrupt ABA export in the phloem.  Girdling increased foliage ABA levels in two of the species\, and this increase triggered an accelerated rate of chlorophyll decline in these species. We conclude that an increase in ABA level may augment leaf senescence in winter deciduous species but that it is not essential for this annual process. \nThis event is open to Centre Members only. If you are a Centre Member who would like to attend\, please contact admin@plantsuccess.org for the Zoom invitation.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-cade-kane/
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Rana Munns
DESCRIPTION:The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Professor Rana Munns. \nPlant capacities to adapt to abiotic stresses\nClimate change and the challenge of feeding an increasing world population pose two existential threats. Climate change causes increased global temperatures that reduce crop yield\, and the increasing world population demands higher productivity of crops and pastures on decreasing areas of traditional agricultural land. To understand the responses in common to the various abiotic stresses\, we distinguish seven capacities that plants possess for adapting to abiotic stresses that result in continued growth and a productive yield. These include the capacities to take up essential resources\, supply them to different plant parts\, generate the energy required to maintain cellular functions\, communicate between plant parts\, and manage structural assets in the face of changed circumstances. We show how these capacities are crucial for reproductive success of major crops during drought\, salinity\, temperature extremes\, flooding\, and nutrient stress. This helps us to focus on the strategies that enhance plant adaptation to all stresses and identify key responses that can be targets for plant breeding. \n \nProfessor Rana Munns\nRana Munns is recognised internationally for her research in the fundamental principles of crop adaptation to salinity\, and for applications of these insights. She defined the critical plant processes for tolerance to soil salinity\, and showed which distinguishes salinity stress from drought stress. She discovered genes for sodium exclusion and led a research team on the genetic basis of salt tolerance in durum wheat\, which produced breeding lines yielding 25% more grain on saline soils in farmers’ fields. \nShe has retired from CSIRO Agriculture and Food\, and lives at Lennox Head NSW. She is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science\, and The World Academy of Sciences.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-rana-munns/
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CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
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