Land In Bloom
Author: V. Safonov
Added by: mirtitles
Added Date: 2022-09-10
Subjects: soviet science, genetics, agriculture, agricultural research, hybridisation, vegetative hybrids, farming, lysenko, michurin, natural selection, artificial selection, darwin, mendel, history of genetics, plants, dandelions, ARCTIC AGRICULTURE
Publishers: Foreign Languages Publishing House
Collections: mir-titles, additional collections
Pages Count: 600
PPI Count: 600
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 478.73 MB
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License: Public Domain Mark 1.0
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Description
A celebration of Soviet agricultural science, using literary techniques to bring the main characters to life. A propagandized history of plant breeding. This entertaining work won the 1949 Stalin prize. Mendelian genetics, developed in the U.S., are attacked in favour of the inheritance of acquired characteristics as espoused by Michurin, Lysenko, and others.
The book was translated from Russian by J. Fineberg was published in1951 by Foreign Languages Publishing House.