Article ID: CBB467097261

Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields (2022)

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Narratives of improved seed varieties often focus on scientists, controlled experimental fields, or laboratories. Seldom are farmers the protagonists of seed experimentation histories. Yet what happens when not-yet-released seeds appear in a farmer’s field and the blame is placed on the farmer—and not the lab from which the seeds “escaped”? How do we tell that story? More important, how has focusing on seeds—the objects themselves—taken our attention away from the historical human element in nontraditional experimental fields? This essay looks at an alleged theft of experimental seeds in a southern Sonoran field and the curious aftermath that in 1970 necessitated the intervention of local and federal authorities and the expertise of both domestic and foreign scientists, such as Norman Borlaug.

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Article Prakash Kumar (2022) Introduction: Seeds and the History of Science. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 581-587). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Baranski, Marci R.
Mottier, Nicole
Lawson, Charles
Julia R. S. Bursten
Ichikawa, Hiroshi
Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris
Concepts
Agriculture
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Experiments and experimentation
Farmers
Science and law
Green revolution
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Ancient
Places
United States
Mexico
Europe
India
England
Edinburgh
Institutions
Census of Marine Life (1999-2009)
Rockefeller Foundation
Human Genome Project
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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