Vernalization
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Vernalization is the induction of a plant's flowering process by exposure to the prolonged cold of winter, or by an artificial equivalent. After vernalization, plants acquire the ability to flower, bu
Many species of henbane require vernalization before flowering.
Trofim Lysenko
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.
Vernalization
…from those of summer plants, and also that early swollen germinating seeds of winter cereals are sensitive to cold. In 1928, the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko published his works on the effects of cold on cereal seeds, and coined the term "яровизация" (yarovizatsiya : "jarovization") to describe a chilling…
Lysenko in 1938
Verbatim report of the 1948 VASKhNIL session
Lysenko in 1959
Lysenko's grave at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow