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Dedicating himself to science, Lysenko became an agronomist in 1925 and was soon deployed to a remote research station in Azerbaijan. But despite his degree, Lysenko had garnered some truly bizarre ideas about science. For starters, he believed that plants and seeds could be trained to follow socialist organizational principles.

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Lysenko's grip on power began to weaken after Stalin died in 1953. By 1964, he'd been deposed as the dictator of Soviet biology, and he died in 1976 without regaining any influence.

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Lysenko came to dominate Soviet biology with a 1948 speech—prepared in part by Stalin himself—in which Lysenko denounced Mendel and declared proponents of such science to be enemies of the

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In November 2004 the state passed, by a 59 to 41 margin, a $3bn initiative to fund this research over 10 or more years. California has taken on the task of funding mainly basic research in these

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The main theoretical ideas underlying it were the following: (1) the inheritance of acquired traits (i.e., fundamental element of Neo-Lamarckism) with new biological properties arising from direct environmental exposure and being inherited by changes in metabolism (Lysenko 1958a); (2) denial of the role of chromosomes and DNA in heredity [a

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Lysenko and Russian genetics: an alternative view. European Journal of Human Genetics 25 , 1097-1098 ( 2017) Cite this article. We read with great interest the recent article 'Some pioneers of

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He writes, The moral of Lysenko is that suppressing academic debate and dissent for political reasons yields bad science, bad scholarship, and inevitably bad results. It can even lead to the collapse of nations. The genius of the scientific method and Western academic culture is that you get closer to the truth by subjecting all theories and

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The problem of Lysenkoism: why we cannot explain it away? The Lysenko controversy as a global phenomenon. Vols. 1,2. Genetics and agriculture in the Soviet Union and beyond,edited by W.deJong-Lambert and N. Krementsov, NY, Springer, 2017, xiv+191pp.; xi+243pp., € 89.99; € 99.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-319-39175-5

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Trofim Lysenko's destruction of genetics in the USSR. Lysenko (1898-1976) was an agronomist from Ukraine who rose to power in the 1930s. Through a technique called "jarowisation" ("vernalization"), he purported to have induced winter-wheat seeds to produce a crop also in spring. His later claims that the vernalization effects were

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Open in viewer. In Lysenko's Ghost, Loren Graham explores the latest attempts to restore the legacy of the Ukrainian agronomist Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976), who spearheaded a campaign to reject Mendelian genetics in favor of a pseudoscientific theory of environmentally induced heredity in the USSR from the late 1920s to the mid-1960s.

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Trofim Lysenko. The downfall of Soviet genetics and agriculture occurred due to the alignment of numerous social, economic, scientific, meteorological, and political factors. No single person can bear complete blame for the events, but a crucial actor in the story was Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was born to a Ukrainian peasant family in 1898, and

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Vavilov had begun by endorsing Lysenko. However, following a vicious campaign of character-assassination, lies, and political intimidation, Vavilov's powers were curtailed after 1936, and in

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Lysenkoism was based on the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics and rejection of standard genetics and cell theory. It was introduced firstly in the Soviet Union (USSR) during Stalinism (1927-1953), and after 1948, it was enforced in some other communist states (e.g., Poland, Czechoslovakia, China)—leading to elimination or suspension of research and teaching of genetics [49

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Download Citation | Lysenko Up Close but Afar, or Focus on Lysenkoism from the 21st Century | Two books recently published abroad by prominent historians of biology on Lysenkoism acknowledging the

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The Rise and Fall of Lysenko: Spectacular successes of Western biology initiate a reorientation of Russian biology along Western lines. The Rise and Fall of Lysenko: E. W. Caspari and R. E. Marshak Authors Info & Affiliations. Science.

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gun by Lysenko in the late 1930's which saw the Soviet government come to dictate not only what must be believed in biology, but also what kind of research could be carried on and how. The impact of Lysenko's ideas in genetics and biology in general is still being felt in Russia today, for it was only recently (Jan-uary 27, 1965) that Lysenko

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Lysenkoism remained established in many countries in the Eastern Bloc, and in China until the late 1950s. The ban on genetics research was finally lifted in the Soviet Union in 1964 when Lysenko retired from his post. In Beale's words, the Lysenko affair was 'the most extraordinary, tragic and in some ways absurd, scientific battle that

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After Stalin's death in 1953, Lysenko's influence weakened for some time but regained influence under Nikita Khrushchev until the latter was overthrown in 1964. Since the mid-1990s, Russian historians have worked intensely on the Lysenko era (2, 3), but no comprehensive account yet exists in languages other than Russian. It was a fortunate