Word: lysenko
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...recent issue of TIME [Feb. 11] there was an article in which the work of the Russian scientist, Lysenko, was reviewed. Far be it from me to belittle Lysenko's work, but have you kept abreast of developments in Indiana...
Vague, Amateurish Lysenko...
...your review of Lysenko's book, Heredity and its Variability [TIME, Feb. 11], you conclude: "If Lysenko's . . . methods [of stimulating organisms to new directions of growth] really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs of man." It may be stated that methods like those of Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko...
...Lysenko and his followers at the Soviet's All-Union Institute of Selection & Genetics claim to have disestablished tomatoes, potatoes, wheat and barley. Their conservatism vanquished, the plants could be grown in almost any part of the mighty Soviet Union: e.g., a tomato was deeply shaken by a grafted liaison with a nightshade. It became so enterprising that, sown outdoors in May, it ripened its fruits before the early frost of Moscow...
...Lysenko's "disestablishment" methods really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs...