1948 - Agriculture

Agriculture

Lysenkoites opposed to hybridization take over the USSR's last remaining centers of pure biological research (see Lysenko, 1940). The centers were organized at the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Science and at the Institute of Genetics by the late Nikolai Vavilov (see 1954).

U.S. corn is now 75 percent hybrid (see Golden Cross Bantam, 1933).

The chlorinated insecticides aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, and toxaphene are introduced to help farmers control pests that may resist chlordane, DDT, or methoxychlor.