'Vegetative Hybridization'

Abstract

MUCH has been written about the experiments and scientific conclusions of Lysenko and his collaborators. There has, however, been almost no attempt at an actual critical confirmation of the Russian results. Thus, although the experiments on ‘vegetative hybridization’ have formed a large part of the basis for certain theories suggested by Lysenko, there has, as yet, been no published account in Great Britain of a repetition of any of these investigations. In view of this lack of information, it was decided to repeat one of the Russian experiments on ‘vegetative hybridization’ in the tomato, and the present communication summarizes the results in the year of grafting.