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Wyercat--Your description sounds very much like Karin Traviss' series, the Wess'Har Wars, starting with "City of Pearl". Very much indeed. There are about six of seven books in the series--Matriarch, The World Before, Ally, Crossing the Line, Judge. Some of your details are unfamiliar, but the basics are there and I am pretty sure these are the books you are looking for. Look up Karen Traviss, City of Pearl to start.
Kay Kenyon had a book called "Seeds of Time" but it has been awhile since I read it, but it sounds similar. Is that it? I remember liking it.
City of Pearl! That's it! That's it! And there's more you say? You have made my day! Thank you!And Sheron, I'll take Your "Seeds of Time" as a recommendation: I loved City of Pearl and if it sounds similar I'd like to read it :) Thanks.
Weyrcat--Try to read them in order, as the story complicates and unfolds.
I borrowed this book via Mobireader from the NC digital library. Mobi's were scarce in 2009, so I got the only sci-fi one they had.
We start on a spaceship. Lt (captain?) Sheehan is about to retire from a long term of service with a goverment bio military something. In this future the genetic codes of all known vegetables have been tweaked by various companies to the point that they are copywrited and hybridization is illegal. Sheehan is already all packed to retire quietly to some piece of land where she can grow the illegally hybridized tomato seeds she's created, in peace and solitude... after this last mission.
She and her team get dropped (crash?)on this planet in question, looking for thr remains of ship lost decades ago. She finds a fairly thriving communit of colonist peasants who've adapted pretty well to the thought that they would be there forever. I think they're sort of Christian, or there's at least some low-key organized religion.
There is an advanced matriarchal alien race living on the planet. One of them (a male) is ostrasized for being a carrier of something that causes him to adapt his genetic code very fast to pretty much anything. He can communicate with Sheehan. Sheehan discovers he's not such a scary monster (the colonists are frightened of him, I think) and he teaches her about the planet. He's okay with her as she doesn't consume the dead like the other people do (vegetarian which his people are too). He also doesnt understand the cemetary. I recall the alien's funeral act to include placing their dead on some sort of sand dunes and other alien lifeforms consume them.
A large note is that the colonists crashes with a huge store of uncopywritten seeds (yay save Earth!)
I think in the end she is infected by the ostracized alien with his whatever, to save her life, and she remains on the planet.
It was the only novel the author had written at the time, and though I recall all this, I cannot remember details that make google, amazon, or any library give me a title or an author. I didn't track my books back then (short period, figures).
HALPS!