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U.S.A.— — Established in Leyden, Zuid-Holland, in 1933 — Cables: • LOTSYA — A BIOLOGICAL MISCELLANY • Edited by Frans Verdoorn — Volume 1 D?J.P. LOT3Y VERNALIZATION and PHOTOPERIODISM T. A' JILICEHKO TEOPETHHECKHE OCHOBH flPOBMBAUNU rOCyAAPCTBEHBOB H3MTBJbCTB© KoaxosBofl n coBxoaaofi aHTBP4T»'PW MOCBBA-.IBHHBrPAA Frontispiece (wood cut portrait of the author) and title page of Lysenko's Theoretical Bases of Vernalization (1935), see pp. 5-8. Lysenko, whose name is identified so closely with the early practice of vernalization, "is an excellent prophet," writes Ashby in his recent 'Scientist in inactivity, Russia' : "He is full of the unquenchable optimism, the impatience with the scorn of the word 'impossible,' which Russia must have to complete her social experiment. He is a peasant who understands peasants. He is a shrewd yields were too low in the and clever practical agriculturist . When potato Ukraine, he suggested that tubers should be sown in summer instead of spring. layers of being driven by winds off the fields in . When he saw the thin snow in Siberia, he shocked convention by announcing that wheat should be sown of grain stubble. Again it worked. When the much-advertised pre-treatment great failure, Lysenko cleverly substituted by low temperatures . proved a appeared another pre-treatment which is virtually a germination test, but which is under his name in the decrees for the Spring sowing in 1945 and 1946. He epitomises the peasants' demagogue. What he says to them, goes. And he for the dialectical materialism in action; he provides the practical philosophy remake his collective farm. If the Bolsheviks had not believed that man can are today. crops, his beasts, and even himself, they would not be where they average The missionaries of this faith have to be less sophisticated than the one reason polished and well-educated Academician. That, in my opinion, is why Lysenko and his school are quietly tolerated." VERNALIZATION and PHOTOPERIODISM A SYMPOSIUM by A. E. MURNEEK and R. O. WHYTE t^th H. A. Allard, H. a. Borthwick, Erwin Bunning, G. L. FuNKE, Karl C. Hamner, S. B. Hendricks, A. Lang, M. Y. Nuttonson, M. W. Parker, R. H. Roberts, S. M. Sircar, B. Esther Struckmeyer and F. W. Went Foreword by Kenneth V. Thimann 1948 WALTHAM, MASS., U.SA. Published by the Chronica Botanica Company First published MCMXLVIII By the Chronica Botanica Company of Waltham, Mass., U. S. A. Copyright, 1948. bv the Chronica Botanica Co. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form Authorized Agents: — New York, N. Y,: Stechert-Hafner, Inc. 31 East 10th Street. Inc. San Francisco, Cal.: J. W. Stacey, 551 Market Street. Ottawa, Ont.: Thorburn and Abbott, Ltd., lis, Sparks Street. Mexico, D. F.: Axel Moriel Sucrs., San Juan de Letran 24-116; Ap.