The rise and fall of T. D. Lysenko / Zhores A. Medvedev ; translated by I. Michael Lerner, with the editorial assistance of Lucy G. Lawrence.

  • Medvedev, Zhores A., 1925-2018.
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1969
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    Notes: Lysenko^s Agrobiology 271 4. I. I. Prezent, Stenographic report of the LAAAS session (1948). 5. K. Y. Kostriukova, ibid., p. 272. 6. N. G. Belen'ky, ibid., p. 73. 7. N. M. Sisakyan, Biokhimiya Obviena Veshchestv (AS Press, 1954). It should be noted that Sisakyan has now completely reversed his attitude toward molecular genetics and published a number of articles in which high appraisal of the genetic code and template molecules is made. 8. No. 6, December, 1961. 9. K. Y. Kostriukova, Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly, Seriya Filosofa (1962), no. I. ID. V. M. Kaganov, Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii (1962), vol. 23, no. I. 11. Dialektichesky Materializm i Voprosy Genetiki (Sotsekgiz, 1962), p. 27. 12. Ibid., pp. 140-41. 13. Ibid., pp. 49-50. 14. On personal direction of Khrushchev, transmitted by tele¬ phone from Kiev where he, together with Lysenko, attended an agricultural conference. [1967] 15. A two-page discussion of the interpretation of environment- genotype relationships is omitted. One of the two pages was missing from the original manuscript. (Transi.) Chapter 8. Lysenko^s Agrobiology 1. In the original text, twenty pages are devoted to a review of the practical contributions of genetics. As this seems super¬ fluous for a Western reader, the titles of the sections will suffice to indicate the nature of the material discussed: Gen¬ etics as the basis of selection, Increase in variability by arti¬ ficial mutagenesis, Practical application of polyploidy, New methods of hybridization and utilization of heterosis, Regu¬ lation of sex in animals, Medical and cancer genetics, and the genetics of aging, Radiation genetics. (Transi.) 2. I have been aided in writing this section by extensive unpub-