IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB467097261

Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields (2022)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 113
Issue: 3
Pages: 618-624

URI: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721073

DOI: 10.1086/721073

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Science and law Scientists Experiments and experimentation Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Agriculture Farmers Seeds 20th century, late Mexico Borlaug, Norman Ernest

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.

...More

Included in

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

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB467097261/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Book Marci Baranski; (2022)
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution (/isis/citation/CBB031473898/)

Book Marci Baranski; (2019)
Globalizing Wheat: Success and Failure of the Green Revolution (/isis/citation/CBB650890415/)

Article Rodriguez, Veronica Perez; Anderson, Kirk C.; (2013)
Terracing in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico: Cycles of Resilience of an Ancient Land-Use Strategy (/isis/citation/CBB001421929/)

Article Nicole Mottier; (2019)
The Origins of Mexico's Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, in Thought and Practice (/isis/citation/CBB285024227/)

Article Julia R. S. Bursten; Catherine Kendig; (2021)
Growing Knowledge: Epistemic Objects in Agricultural Extension Work (/isis/citation/CBB028916046/)

Book Hanno Jentzsch; (2021)
Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture (/isis/citation/CBB353340663/)

Article Byczynski, John; (2014)
My Father's Past, My Children's Future: Agrarian Identity and a Powerline in Minnesota, 1974--1980 (/isis/citation/CBB001421779/)

Book Pamela Riney-Kehrberg; (2022)
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s (/isis/citation/CBB710703294/)

Article Vermeulen, Niki; Parker, John N.; Penders, Bart; (2013)
Understanding Life Together: A Brief History of Collaboration in Biology (/isis/citation/CBB001320293/)

Article Hiroshi 浩 Ichikawa 市川; (2012)
Soviet Physicists during the War: Jealousy, Discord and the Ideological Dispute (/isis/citation/CBB001214337/)

Article Krige, John; (2012)
Hybrid Knowledge: The Transnational Co-Production of the Gas Centrifuge for Uranium Enrichment in the 1960s (/isis/citation/CBB001200071/)

Article Baranski, Marci R.; (2015)
Wide Adaptation of Green Revolution Wheat: International Roots and the Indian Context of a New Plant Breeding Ideal, 1960--1970 (/isis/citation/CBB001422121/)

Book Charles Lawson; Berris Charnley; (2015)
Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Convergence in Laws (/isis/citation/CBB742382287/)

Article Loeber, Anne; (2011)
The Food Chain Reforged: Novel Food Risk Arrangements and the Metamorphosis of a Metaphor (/isis/citation/CBB001034640/)

Article Chandler, Jennifer; (2007)
Law and Technology: Exploring the Role of the Law in the Conflict Between Organic Farming and Biotechnology (/isis/citation/CBB000720337/)

Article Ana Barahona; (2020)
Women and the Workplace. Collaborative Networks of Women Geneticists in Mexico in the 1960s and early 1970s (/isis/citation/CBB787302390/)

Article Levidow, Les; Boschert, Karin; (2011)
Segregating GM Crops: Why a Contentious “Risk” Issue in Europe? (/isis/citation/CBB001034641/)

Article Grigoris Panoutsopoulos; Theodore Arabatzis; (2021)
CERN’s Balancing Act Between Unity and Disunity: The “Sister Experiments” UA1 and UA2 and CERN’s First Nobel Prize (/isis/citation/CBB962350764/)

Article García-Sancho, Miguel; (2015)
Animal Breeding in the Age of Biotechnology: The Investigative Pathway behind the Cloning of Dolly the Sheep (/isis/citation/CBB001510361/)

Article Leonelli, Sabina; Ankeny, Rachel A.; (2012)
Re-Thinking Organisms: The Impact of Databases on Model Organism Biology (/isis/citation/CBB001221584/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}