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Nikolai Vavilov: Who was the Indiana Jones of Botany?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 0
Publish Date: 2011-08-10 10:59:00
Description: Nikolai Vavilov traveled to 64 countries gathering seeds and plants and established the first seed bank. Stalin had the botanist sentenced to death, but his seed bank endured: Other scientists guarded the stores from rats, starving Russians and the Nazis.
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