Vernalization
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Template:Not verified Vernalization is a requirement of some temperate cereal crops and trees for a period of low winter temperature to initiate or accelerate the flowering process.
Lysenkoism
Its meaning was deformed by Trofim Lysenko during the Lysenkoist period in the Soviet Union. (In Russian language, the term is "yarovizatsiya".) The "revolutionary" postulate of Lysenko was that vernalization is applicable to all plants.
Many of the successes of "new" agrotechnique employed on a number of agricultural species were either faked by Lysenkoites (Lysenkovtsy, in Russian), or had their roots in extensive manualmore material to seed, cut sides were covered with charcoal to prevent the mold from growing, etc. etc. - the cost of human labour was nil, so the vernalized crops were looking more profitable to state. Later Lysenko himself denounced his idea, carefully phrasing that "vernalization in mass planing proved nonviable".