This sounds like Lysenkoism [0]. See, it was politically rather important for the Soviet Union to have heritability of acquired traits in humans, which necessar

This sounds like Lysenkoism [0]. See, it was politically rather important for the Soviet Union to have heritability of acquired traits in humans, which necessarily implied the same in plants. So all that genetic inheritance and crop breeding? Useless quackery. Of course, in the Soviet Union, "quacks" were executed... And this contributed to ongoing crop yield deficiencies. Facts supporting a terrible conclusion (that blank slate theory is not correct in plants) is not a reason that the facts should be ignored. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism