Please answer the following question: Facts: - |name: mikhail khristoforovich - residence: russiarussia - known for: contributions to plant physiology and flowering - death date: 1991 - ethnicity: armenian - field: plant growth and development - birth date: 1902 - image size: 150px Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mikhail chailakhyan .
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mikhail khristoforovich chailakhyan -lrb- , -rrb- -lrb- 1901 -- 1991 -rrb- was an armenian-russian scientist who is widely known for proposing the existence of a universal plant hormone that is involved in flowering .he named this hormone florigen in 1936 .his studies included the mechanisms of flowering , tuberization and sex expression in plants .his pioneer work included the agricultural applications of phytohormones and synthetic analogs .