If you’re interested in reading more about the past, present, and future of seeds and the seed industry, check out this list of books:

• American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace
  John C. Culver and John Hyde, New York, Norton (2000)
• Biotechnology
  Martha Newell McGloughlin & Teagace, Dublin, Ireland (2000)
• Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety and the Environment
  Thomas R. DeGregori, The CATO Institute (2002)
• Concise Encyclopedia and Crop Improvement: Institutions, Persons,
  Theories, Methods, and Histories
  Rolf Schlegel, Haworth Press, New York, London, Oxford, USA (2007)
• Lords of the Harvest
  Daniel Charles, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA (2001)
• The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman  Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
  Leon Hesser, Durban House Press
• The Master of Seeds-Life and Work of Claude Hope
  Ricardo Arias Martinez, Burpee Books (1992)
• Mendel in the Kitchen
  Nina Feroroff, Ph.D., Joseph Henry Press (2004)
  A scientist’s view of genetically modified food
• Merchants of Grain
  Dan Morgan, Viking Press (1972)
• People, Plants, and Genes: The Story of Crops and Humanity
  Denis J. Murphy,  Oxford University Press (2007)
• Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
  Denis J. Murphy, Cambridge University Press (2007)
  Societal Context and the Future of Agriculture
• The Politics of Precaution
  Robert Paarlberg, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Press (2001)
  For the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  Genetically modified crops in developing countries
• Roswell Garst: A Biography
  Harold Lee, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA
• Seed Wars
  Keith Aokia, Carolina Academic Press (2008)
  Controversies and cases on plant genetic resources and intellectual property
• Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
  Henry Hobhouse (1995)
• Starved for Science
  Robert Paarlberg, Ph.D.,Harvard University Press (2008)
  How biotechnology and its potential benefits to subsistence farmers is being kept out of Africa
• The Story of Corn
  Betty Fussell, Albert A. Knopf, New York (1992)
• The Truth About Organic Foods
  Alex Avery, Henderson Communications LLC (2006)