If anyone is interested there was a huge body of work undertaken in the Soviet Union by a now mostly forgotten geneticist: Nikolai Vavilov. He has quite a story of persecution by the Soviet govt, and a great book on the topic may be found here:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=2mi7NAOxe-8C&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gclid=COnG2ceeutACFUtvfgodquAD-A&gclsrc=ds" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=2mi7NAOxe-8C&...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov</a>