Tales From Gavagan's Bar
“"Like this: this Lysenko claims that if you change the environment, like the soil a plant grows in, for instance, a change is produced in the germ plasm, and future generations will have new and different characteristics." Mr. Jeffers produced a handkerchief with which he mopped his brow, either as an antidote to the heat of the day or to the flood of Brenner's words. "But isn't that sometimes true?" he asked. "I read once where, if you take seeds of the best Turkish tobacco and... plant them in Kentucky, you get Kentucky tobacco." "It works the other way, too," said Brenner. "There isn't any real change in the tobacco plant in such a case. It only takes up certain flavors from the soil it grows in. What this Lysenko means is that by changing the soil or the water or something, you could get a tobacco plant to produce apples and to keep on producing them." "But look here," said Jeffers.MoreLess
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