Georgii Karpechenko
Georgii Dmitrievich Karpechenko | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 21 April (3 May) 1899 |
| Died | 28 July 1941 (aged 42) Firing range "Kommunarka", Moscow Oblast, USSR |
Georgii Dmitrievich Karpechenko, sometimes Karpetschenko (Russian: Георгий Дмитриевич Карпеченко; 21 April 1899 – 28 July 1941) was a Russian and Soviet biologist.[1]
G. D. Karpechenko specialized in plant cytology and created several hybrids. Among his contributions is his seminal work on allopolyploids, culminating in his creation of a fertile offspring of radishes and cabbages, the first instance of a new species obtained through polyploid speciation during experimental crossbreeding.[2][3][4]
He worked at the Institute of Applied Botany near Leningrad, but collaborated with geneticists in other countries, notably Øjvind Winge in Denmark and Erwin Baur in Germany.[5] He also travelled abroad to the John Innes Horticultural Institution in London.[5] He was arrested by the NKVD under the false grounds of belonging to an alleged "anti-Soviet group" centered on the well known Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov who was his colleague at Leningrad. He was sentenced to death and executed on 28 July 1941.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Karpetschenko, G.D. (1929). Konstantwerden von Art- und Gattungsbastarden durch Verdoppelung der Chromosomenkomplexe. Der Züchter. 5: 133–140. German abstract available
- ^ Griffiths AJF, Gelbart WM, Miller JH, et al. 1999. Modern Genetic Analysis New York: W. H. Freeman; extract available
- ^ "BIO | Time Line". Archived from the original on 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2010-02-11. A biotechnology timeline from Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade association.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-08-14. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Wang, Y., Scarth, R. and Campbell, C. 2005. Interspecific hybridization between diploid Fagopyrum esculentum and tetraploid F. homotropicum. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 85: 41–48 (includes a description of Karpechenko's results). - ^ a b Karpechenko, G.D., 1927. The production of polyploid gametes in hybrids. Hereditas 9, 349–368.
References
[edit]- Birstein, Vadim J. The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2001.
- Bentley Glass, The Grim Heritage of Lysenkoism, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 65, No. 4 (December, 1990), pp. 413–421, refers to "Karpechenko's defense of genetics when it was first assailed by Lysenko",
- Karpechenko, G.D., Polyploid hybrids of Raphanus sativus X Brassica oleracea L., Bulletin of Applied Botany. 17:305-408 (1927).
- Karpechenko, G.D., 1928. Polyploid hybrids of Raphanus sativus L. X Brassica oleracea L. Zeitschrift für induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre 48, 1–85.
Reprinted in: Jules Janick, ed. 1989. Classic papers in horticultural science. The Blackburn Press. Publisher's listing
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
