Deb, Debal 2024. Adjustments of flower opening time and duration in tropical rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces in response to heat stress. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science http://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12706
Deb, Debal 2024. The dual role of culture in evolutionary play: Anthropogenic expansion vss destruction of biodiversity. Qeios (April 3) ID: CWBMG2.4
The effect of sunlight intensity on flower opening time and exposure duration in rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces.
Deb, Debal, 2023, Rice FOT & illuminance-2022-Summary, Harvard Dataverse, V1, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WWSGLE
Deb, Debal 2023. A farmer’s approach to detecting photoperiod sensitivity in rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces. Journal of Botanical Research 5(3): 60-66. doi: 10.30564/jbr.v5i3.5737
Deb, Debal, N.V. Joshi, D. Bhattacharya, M. Nauri, R. Ganguly 2023. Diversity of flower opening time and duration in rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces of South and Southeast Asia in different cultivation seasons. Journal of Botanical Research 5(3): 36-48. doi: 10.30564/jbr.v5i3.5724
Deb, Debal 2023. Flower opening time of Photoperiod Sensitive and Photoperiod Insensitive Rices on Sunny Days. Harvard Dataverse, V1, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QRCNMD
Roy, P., Debal Deb, A. Suganya, B. Roy, T. Pradeep & T. Saha 2023. Endangered indigenous rice varieties as a source of B vitamins for the undernourished population. Cereal Chemistry 100 (3), doi: 10.1002/cche.10668
Deb, Debal 2022. The erosion of biodiversity and culture: Bankura district of West Bengal as an illustrative locale. Ecology, Economy and Society- the INSEE Journal Vol. 5 No. 1: 139-176; doi: 10.37773/ees.v5i1.487
Deb, Debal & Sreejata Dutta 2022. The robustness of Land Equivalent Ratio as a measure of yield advantage of multi-crop systems over monocultures. Experimental Results 3: e2; doi:10.1017/exp.2021.33 [Download pdf]
Deb, Debal 2022. Rice flower opening time and flower opening duration data. Harvard Dataverse, V7, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KYW1UC,
Deb, Debal 2022. An archeology of development. Mainstream LX (2); [Click to read]
Deb, Debal 2022. Rice Flower opening time and flower opening duration data. Harvard Dataverse, V7. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KYW1UC [Data paper]
Deb, Debal 2021. Productive efficiency of traditional multiple cropping systems compared to monocultures of seven crop species: a benchmark study. Experimental Results 2, e18, 1–10; doi:10.1017/exp.2021.7 [Download pdf]
Deb, Debal 2021. বিচ্যুত স্বদেশভূমি : বাংলার জৈব সংস্কৃতির লুপ্তাবশেষের সন্ধান । Basudha/ Dhyanbindu: Kolkata। [Read book review by Swarnendu Sil; by Arunangshu Bhattcharya; by Judhajit Dasgupta]
Deb, Debal and Priyabrata Roy 2021. Wood and bark lignin contents of trees from deciduous forests of eastern India. Experimental Results 2: E28. doi:10.1017/exp.2021.18
Ray, Sandipan, Debal Deb, A. Nandy, D. Basu, A. Aich, S. Tripathy, S. Sen Roy and Mousumi Poddar Sarkar 2021. Rare and neglected rice landraces as a source of fatty acids for undernourished infants. Current Science 121(5): 660-666. doi: 10.18520/cs/v121/i5/660–666
Deb, Debal 2021. Rice cultures of Bengal. Gastronomica 21(3) (Fall 2021): 91–101. doi: 10.1525/gfc.2021.21.3.91 [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal and Debdulal Bhattacharya 2021. Unusually high frequency of cross pollination between rice landraces Shiuli and Kharah with coincident flower opening times. Current Science 121(1): 121-126. doi: 10.18520/cs/v121/i1/121-126 [Download PDF]
Roy, Priyabrata, Debal Deb, T. Pradeep, S. Talai Mukhopadhyay, A.K. Sinha and Tanima Saha 2021. Comparative analyses of the nutraceutical potentialities of selected Indian traditional black rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces. Oryza 58(2): 320-334. [Download PDF]
Mondal, Priya, Souvik Datta and Debal Deb 2021. Agronomic and nutraceutical properties of indigenous rice varieties. Chapter 5, pp. 71-91. In: D. Sinha (ed), A Handbook of Agriculture and Plant Sciences. ABS Publishers. New Delhi. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2021. ‘From the Mob to the Community: the alternative to developmentality’. Vikalp Sangam (July 22) [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2021. Productive efficiency of traditional multiple cropping systems compared to monocultures of seven crop species: A benchmark study. Experimental Results 2, e18. doi: 10.1017/exp.2021.7
Deb, Debal 2021. Genetic engineering in agriculture: Uncertainties and risks, pp. 133-142. In: D. Newton (ed), GMO Food: A Reference Handbook. 2nd edition. ABC Clio. Santa Barbara/ Denver. [Click to read]
Ray, Sanidipan, Debal Deb and Mousumi Poddar-Sarkar 2021. Colour based nutraceutical potentiality of some traditional rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) varieties of India. Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources 12(1): 153-157. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2021. Every time Bengal loses a traditional rice variety, it loses a little bit of its culture. Scroll (Mar 6th).
[Bengai translation: ‘বাংলার বিস্মৃত ধান্য সংস্কৃতি’ ভয়েস মার্ক (মে-জুন ২০২১): 19-22]
Das, Soumya Prakash, Rahul S. Jasrotia, Debal Deb, M. A. Iquebal, S. Jaiswal and Narottam Dey 2020. Genomic analysis of polycarpellary rice (Oryza sativa L.) through whole genome resequencing. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology doi:10.1007/s13562-020-00602-8 [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2020. Biodiversität vergessene Körner. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 7(20): 38-45. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2020. Is the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) consonant with agroecology? Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 44: 1338-1369. doi:10.1080/21683565.2020.1779165
Deb, Debal 2020. এই যন্ত্রনির্ভর সভ্যতাকে ত্যাগ না করলে পৃথিবী ও মানুষের বাঁচা অসম্ভব। ৪ নম্বর প্ল্যাটফর্ম (০১ মে, ২০২০); Reprinted in https://vikalpsangam.org/ (27 July, 2021) [Download pdf]
Deb, D 2019. Food sovereignty: Opposing the enclosure of land, seeds and knowledge commons, pp. 1-48. In: Stefan Menschel (ed), Can Hunger be Defeated? Yoda Press. New Delhi.
Deb, D. 2019. Restoring rice biodiversity. Scientific American 321(4) (October): 54-61. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican1019-54 [online version here]
Suganya, A., Debal Deb and T. Pradeep 2019. Spatial distribution mapping of molecules in the grains of different rice landraces, using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (30 January) doi: 10.1002/rcm.8397 [Download PDF]
Das, S.P., Debal Deb and N. Dey 2019. Expression study of five genes involved in floral organ development in multiple seeded rice. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology doi: 10.1007/s13562-019-00526-y
Das, S.P., Debal Deb and N. Dey 2018. Micromorphic and molecular studies of floral organs of a multiple seeded rice Oryza sativa cv jugal. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter doi: 10.1007/s11105-018-1116-9
Deb, Debal 2018. Food and Nutrition from Forest: Relationships with Forest Ecological Status and Management System. Bhubaneswar. Living Farms.
Das Soumya Prakash, Debal Deb and N Dey 2018. Reciprocal hybridization between a natural floral organ mutant and normal rice showed intervarietal barriers. J. Soils and Crops 28 (2): 438-439.
Deb, Debal, Bo Li, S. Chattopadhyay and A. Ray 2017. Identification of an endangered tree as a new record of Cordia macleodii, with an update of Cordia in West Bengal, India. Webbia J. Pl. Taxon. Geog. 73(1): 81-88. [Download PDF]
Sen Gupta, S, A. Baksi, P. Roy, D. Deb and T. Pradeep 2017. Unusual accumulation of silver in the aleurone layer of an Indian rice (Oryza sativa) landrace and sustainable extraction of the metal. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 5(9): 8310-8315.
Deb, Debal 2017. Folk rice varieties, traditional knowledge and nutritional security in South Asia. In: G. Poyyamoli (ed), Agroecology, Ecosystems, and Sustainability in the Tropics. Studera Press, pp. 112-128. [Download PDF]
Chakraborty, Debarati, Debal Deb and Avik Ray 2016. An analysis of variation of the aroma gene in rice (Oryza sativa L. subsp. indica Kato) landraces. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 63 (6): 953-959. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2016. Ecological ethos and indigenous traditions. Pp. 32-36. In: Humanity and Nature: Traditional, Cultural, & Alternative Perspectives. Focus on the Global South/ The Sombath Initiative: Bangkok. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2015. Sacred bamboo groves of the Rajbansi of north Bengal, pp. 45-62. In: M. Amrithalingam (ed), Ecological Traditions of India. vol. XII, Sacred Groves of West Bengal. C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre. Chennai. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal, M. Kloft, J. Lässig and S. Walsh 2015. Variable effects of biochar and P solubilizing microbes on crop productivity in different soil conditions. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 40 (2): 145-168. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal, Soujit Sengupta and T. Pradeep 2015. A profile of heavy metals in rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) landraces. Current Science 109 (3): 407-409. [Download PDF]
Priya, A, S.P. Das, S. Goswami, M.K. Adak, Debal Deb and N. Dey 2015. An exploratory study on allelic diversity for five genetic loci associated with floral organ development in rice. American Journal of Plant Sciences 6: 1973-1980. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2014. Genetic engineering in agriculture: Uncertainties and risks, pp. 120-129. In: David Newton (ed), GMO Food: A Reference Handbook. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, CA. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal, Kavitha Kuruganti, V Rukmini Rao and Salome Yesudas 2014. Forests as Food Producing Habitats: An exploratory study of uncultivated foods and food & nutrition security of Adivasis in Odisha. Living Farms: Bhubaneswar. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2014. Folk rice varieties, traditional agricultural knowledge and food security, pp. 45-57. In: Claude Alvarez (ed), Multicultural Knowledge and the University. Multiversity/ Citizens International: Penang, Malaysia. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2014. The Value of Forest: an ecological economic examination of forest people’s perspective (Chapter 7), pp. 123-159, in: Trevor Fenning (ed), Challenges and Opportunities for the World’s Forests in the 21st Century. Springer. Heidelberg/New York.
Ray, Avik, Debal Deb, Rajasri Ray & Balaji Chattopadhayay 2013. Phenotypic characters of rice landraces reveal independent lineages of shortgrain aromatic indica rice. AoB Plants 5: plt032 (Aug 2013) [Download PDF]
Lele, S., O. Springate-Baginski, R. Lakerveld, Debal Deb and P. Dash 2013. Ecosystem services: origins, contributions, pitfalls, and alternatives. Conservation and Society 11(4): 343-358. [doi: 10.4103/0972-4923.125752]
Deb, Debal 2013. Toward Sustainable Use of Forest Resource: Connecting Forest Ecology to Village Economy. RCDC: Bhubaneswar. [Download PDF]
Karmakar, Joydip, Rajib Roychowdhury, Rup Kumar Kar, Debal Deb and Narottam Dey 2012. Profiling of selected indigenous rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces of Rarh Bengal in relation to osmotic stress tolerance. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 18(2): 125–132. DOI 10.1007/s12298-012-0110-1 [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2012. Did you say ‘High Yield’? pp. 22-25. In: Where is Our Oryza? Living Farms. Bhubaneswar. [Download full booklet]
Deb, Debal, J. Lässig and M. Kloft 2012. A critical assessment of the importance of seedling age in the system of rice intensification (SRI) in eastern India. Experimental Agriculture vol. 48 (3): 326-346. DOI: 10.1017/S001447971200004X [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2011. Review of Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement byMatthew Reed. Economic Botany 65 (2): 236-237. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2010. Review of Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba by Jualynne E. Dodson. Economic Botany 64 (3): 269-270. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2009. Biodiversity and complexity of rice food webs: An empirical assessment. The Open Ecology Journal 2: 112-129. URL: www.bentham.org/open/toecolj/articles/V002/112TOECOLJ.pdf [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2009. Valuing folk crop varieties for agroecology and food security. Bioscience Resource (Commentary) http://independentsciencenews.org/un-sustainable-farming/valuing-folk-crop-varieties/ (26 October 2009) [Download PDF]
Translated into Bengali by Swarnendu Sil [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2009. Beyond Developmentality: Constructing inclusive freedom and sustainability. Earthscan. London. ISBN 9781844077120 [Read review by Ashish Kothari in Frontline] [Read review by Brent McCusker in Economic Geography] [Read review by Joan Martinez-Alier in Journal of Cleaner Production] [Read Review by A.E. Remi in Development in Practice] [Read review by Miramanni M. Mishkin C. in Economic Botany] [Read review by Dino Kosjak in Umwelt Actuell]
Deb, Debal and Debdulal Bhattacharya 2009. Two unique landraces from West Bengal. Seed Research 37 (1&2): 152-155. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2008. Agriculture, pp. 67-81 In: A K Ghosh (ed.), Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizens’ Report. ENDEV Society for Environment and Development. Kolkata.
Deb, Debal 2008. Sacred ecosystems of West Bengal, pp. 117-126. In: A K Ghosh (ed.), Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizens’ Report. ENDEV Society for Environment and Development. Kolkata. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2008. Joint forest management, pp. 96-104. In: A K Ghosh (ed.), Status of Environment in West Bengal: A Citizens’ Report. ENDEV Society for Environment and Development. Kolkata.[Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2007. Sacred Groves of West Bengal: A Model of Community Forest Management. Working Paper No 8. Understanding Livelihood Impacts of Participatory Forest Management Implementation in India and Nepal. (Ser. Ed. Oliver Springate-Baginski). University of East Anglia, Norwich. Overseas Development Group. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2006. Flowering asynchrony can maintain genetic purity in rice landraces. Current Science (Bangalore) 91: 155-157.
Borromeo, E. and Debal Deb 2006. Future of Rice: Examining long term sustainable solutions for rice production. Greenpeace International. Amsterdam & Bangalore. [Read review in Munlochy GM Vigil]
Deb, Debal 2006. Development against freedom and sustainability. Capitalism Nature Socialism (New York) 17: 49-70. [doi: 10.1080/1045575060087455 5 ] [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2005. Seeds of Tradition, Seeds of Future: Folk Rice Varieties of Eastern India. RFSTE. New Delhi. [Read review in HoneyBee]
Spadoni, M. and Debal Deb 2005. “Ethnoecology of sacred groves in West Bengal, India,” pp. 143-160, In: Proceedings of Seminar on “Himalaya: Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development”. Cooperazione Italiana/ASIA Onlus/Zoological Museum. Rome.
Deb, Debal 2005. Unnayaner Pura Katha (An Archeology of Development, in Bengali). Nagarik Mancha. Kolkata.
Deb, Debal 2005. Water crisis in West Bengal, pp. 141-146. In: V. Shiva and K. Jalees (eds), Water and Women. RFSTE/National Commission for Women. New Delhi.
Deb, Debal 2004. Industrial vs Ecological Agriculture. RFSTE. New Delhi. [Read review by Matt Cullen-Meyer]
Patrick Bateson, David Barker, Timothy Clutton-Brock, Debal Deb, Bruno D’udine, Robert A. Foley, Peter Gluckman, Keith Godfrey, Tom Kirkwood, Marta Mirazón Lahr, John Mcnamara, Neil B. Metcalfe, Patricia Monaghan, Hamish G. Spencer and Sonia E. Sultan 2004. Developmental plasticity and human health. Nature (London) 430: 419-421. [doi: 10.1038/nature02725]
Deb, Debal 2004. Economics of multiple cropping: A study of traditional polyculture farms of West Bengal. Circolo Culturale Ambientescienze. Cremona, Italy. http://www.worldwewant.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MC-STUDY-1.pdf
Deb, Debal 2003. Tagore’s oriental postmodernity. CTheory (Event-Scene e34: 29/9/2003).
Deb, Debal 2003. Sacred groves and Sacred ponds. Document for NBSAP. New Delhi. National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.
Deb, Debal 2003. The non-use value of biodiversity and biophilia. Document for NBSAP.
A. K. Ghosh and Debal Deb 2002 (eds). Trainers’ Training Manual for Sustainable Agriculture. Navdanya. New Delhi.
Deb, Debal 2001. The culture of conservation: sacred species and sacred habitats, p. 35. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds), An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. vol. 1. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi
Deb, Debal and K C Malhotra 2001. Conservation ethos in local traditions: the West Bengal heritage. Society and Natural Resources (Pullman, WA) 14: 711-724. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal 2001. “An inventory of plant food resources from Bengal.” pp. 293 to 298. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds), An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. Vol. 1. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi.
Deb, Debal 2001. “Bengal Famines.” pp. 76 to 81. In: V. Shiva and R. Holla-Bhar (eds), An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India. vol. 2. Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology: New Delhi.
Deb, Debal 2000. Folk Rice Varieties of West Bengal: Agronomic and Morphological Characteristics. Vrihi/ Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology. New Delhi.
Deb, Debal 2000. Loot Hoye Jay Swadeshbhumi (Our Land is Being Plundered, in Bengali). Utsa Manush. Kolkata.
Deb, Debal 1999. “Wild and uncultivated plants and animals as food resource: the Bengal paradigm”, pp. 18-19 and 109-113. In: SANFEC Proceedings of South Asian Workshop on Uncultivated Food and Plants. 2-4 October 1999. Bishnupur, Bangladesh.
Deb, Debal 1999. “In search of the forgotten rice varieties.” Down To Earth (New Delhi) 35: 122-123. [Download PDF]
Deb, Debal and A.K. Ghosh 1999. “Land use practices in India: reinstatement and displacement of traditional knowledge.” In: B.B. Basu (ed), Proceedings of the National Colloquium on Natural Resource Management. School of Fundamental Research: Calcutta.
Deb, Debal, K Deuti and K C Malhotra 1997. Sacred grove relics as bird refugia. Current Science (Bangalore) 73: 815-817.
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