Was Lysenko (partly) right? Michurinist biology in the view of modern plant physiology and genetics

Abstract

Soviet Lysenkoism was the darkest period of modern science, and its main product - Michurinist biology - was a collection of absurd theories usually based on anecdotal observations or on a few badly designed experiments without proper controls a

Keywords

• heritability
• Lysenko
• punctuated equilibrium
• somatic mutations
• directed mutations
• Sir Sebright's effect
• frozen plasticity
• evolution
• NATURAL-SELECTION
• BETA-THALASSEMIA
• CANALIZATION
• POPULATIONS
• SPECIATION
• VARIANCE
• TRAITS
• GENES
• ALPH