Trofim Denisovich Lysenkothe son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born into a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Governorateon September 29, 1898. He later attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute, where he found himself interested in agriculture. Here he worked on a few different projects, one involving the effects of temperature variation on the life-cycle of plants. This later led him to consider how he might use this work to convert winter wheat into spring wheat. This process became known as...
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