Curry Helen Anne
School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
J Peasant Stud. 2023 Mar 1;50(3):1037-1055. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2180357. eCollection 2023.
Since the 1970s 'hybrid seeds' have been linked to many perceived perils of industrialized agriculture. This essay revisits the scholarship that helped produce a dominant critical assessment of hybrid seeds, situating its emergence in a series of events and interventions of the late twentieth century. It explores how the singular history of F1 hybrid corn inflected understandings of crop breeding and seed production in general, contributing to effective political mobilization against agroindustry as well as lasting confusion about the promises and pitfalls of distinct approaches to crop development and the nature of hybrid seeds.
自20世纪70年代以来，“杂交种子”就与工业化农业的诸多潜在风险联系在一起。本文重新审视了那些促成对杂交种子进行主流批判性评估的学术研究，将其出现置于20世纪后期的一系列事件和干预之中。它探讨了F1杂交玉米的独特历史如何影响了人们对一般作物育种和种子生产的理解，既推动了针对农业产业的有效政治动员，也导致了人们对不同作物开发方法的前景与风险以及杂交种子本质的长期困惑。
