>>2756981(reposting this with the corrections and without the seperate comments. Seeing them seperate and the og comment still having errors was making me unhappy. Sorry if the reposting annoys people, I should check more before i repost lol)
>Few industrialized countries of the time faced agricultural conditions as severe as those in many parts of the Soviet Union, which is why US factory farming could always rely on monocultures artificial fertilizers, outside of crises like the dust bowlBut few still did. The canadian praries (canada), negev desert (israel), scandinivia + iceland, and mexico alongside other places had areas which had brutal agricultural conditions. The canadian praries for example was very comparable to the soviet unions agricultural and climate conditions.
A scientist by the name of dr charles used mendelian genetics to create marquis wheat. It turned canada including the canadian praries into a bread basket. In other words a place (canada) which rejected lysenko expirenced similar agricultural growth that the soviet union did
You can hear similar stories of OTHER scientists using mendelian genetics to develop very good crops. Scientists from the other countries than canada who made crops for their respective countries. Crops that could survive their respective countries difficult and bad agricultural areas.
>For one Lysenkoist policy drove the creation of a lot of new varieties. How much of this is exclusive to lysenko and how much of this is just the natural scientific discoveries that happens in industrial societies. Other industrial societies which rejected lysenko and used mendelian genetics ended up also creating a lot of new crop varieties. For example, the green revolution was associated with lots of new varieties of crops. Thousands of new crop varieties were made
>directly resulted in the discovery of Kok-Saghyz cluster planting, which made the plant a viable source of natural rubber from 1931 to 1950, and the "tops" method for potatosI need some recent sources on this regarding its succes. From what I recall, the top method for potatos, the cluster planting, and the natural rubber extraction had dissapointing results. Either they produced very low yields (top methods for potatos), killed each other (trees in cluster planting), or had exaggerated results and were eventually replaced with synthetic rubber or south east asian natural rubber. (rubber)
Can you present me a recent source that wasnt from 1951?