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Born October 27, 1855 • Russia
Died June 7, 1935 (aged 79) • Michurinsk • Russia
Subjects Of Study hybridization • inheritance of acquired characteristics

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botanist
Trofim Lysenko
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Edward Murray East
American scientist
Kim Soon-Kwon
South Korean agricultural scientist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Elvin Charles Stakman
American plant pathologist
Sewall Wright, 1965
Sewall Wright
American geneticist
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
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John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
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Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
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George Harrison Shull
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Thomas Andrew Knight
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John Bartram
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Indian scientist
Jean Étienne de Boré
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