Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin will be known to history as the founder of a new, revolutionary teaching of the transformation of living nature. His theory helps to create high-yielding-, qualitatively superior forms of agricultural plants and productive breeds of domestic animals.From his youth Michurin was dominated by the lofty idea of producing high-yielding and high-quality varieties of agricultural plants to replace the old, low-yielding, poor varieties and thus to raise the standard of living of the working people.