Lysenko’s “pseudoscience” was one of the reasons all the people in besieged Leningrad didn’t starve to death, because he found out that you don’t need to plant full potato, but only it’s “eyes”, every “eye” can grow into full potato plant, and the rest of it can be used to feed people.
But yeah, saving people is useless to muricans, so it doesn’t matter.
Here he mentioned in first in 1941. Than here is the book from 1942. After that it was cited in Soviet newspapers, like here, also in 1943 he was awarded for his achievements in planting potatoes.
More info here