Institute of Plant Industry
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The Institute of Plant Industry, Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry or All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry (in Russian: Всероссийский институт растениеводства им. Н. И. Вавилова), as it is officially called, is a research institute of plant genetics, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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History
The Institute of Plant Industry was established in 1921. Nikolai Vavilov was the head of this institute from 1924 to 1936 and had, and still has, the world's largest collection of plant seeds. During the early 1930s, he became the target of the Lysenkoist debate and was exiled. The institute's seedbank survived the 28-month Siege of Leningrad in World War II, where several botanists starved to death rather than eat the collected seeds.[1] In 2010 the plant collection at the Pavlovsk Experimental Station was to be destroyed to make way for luxury housing.[2]
See also
- Plant genetics
- Lysenkoism
- VASKhNIL (the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union)
- Pavlovsk Experimental Station
References
External links
- Official site
- Genetic Resources of Leguminous Plants in the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry
- Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Russia articles missing geocoordinate data
- Research institutes in Russia
- Research institutes in the Soviet Union
- Science and technology in Russia
- Russian Academy of Agriculture Sciences
- VASKhNIL
- Botanical research institutes
