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Grigorii Andreevich Levitsky (1878–1942)

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“The leading goal of the entire research is to understand the hereditary chromosomal mechanism of cultivated plants and to make possible the required transformations in it”.

G. A. Levitsky

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Rodionov, 2009, published in Genetika, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 1429–1435.

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Rodionov, A.V. Grigorii Andreevich Levitsky (1878–1942). Russ J Genet 45, 1261–1266 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795409110015

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