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...Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked at a party meeting why he spoke that way." Lysenko himself was invited to speak. He attacked Alexander Nesmeyanov, president of the Academy of Sciences (TIME Cover, June 2) and V. A. Engelhardt, head...
...Tsitsin's dream is to cross wheat or some other glutinous grain with rye and produce a supergrain which would revolutionize the world's bread and cereal economy. Says he: "The battle between wheat and rye in my laboratories is one of the most momentous in the world...
...blood and fireworks from Moscow last week. One big piece of news was that Nikolay Tsitsin, the Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared...
...Tsitsin, a small, black-mustached scientist, showered with all manner of Soviet awards, gets $15,000,000 a year from the Government for large-scale studies in "grain economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...
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