Photo: Pavlovsk Station, one of the world’s first seed banks begun by Nikolai Vavilov in 1926. Vavilov personally collected seeds of over 200,000 plants ( HuffPo ) It could be a potentially devastating loss for global biodiversity: we’ve caught word over at Huffington Post that the world’s largest collection of fruit and berries, housed in one of the world’s oldest seed banks outside St. Petersburg, Russia may be demolished later this year for a housing … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Massive Russian Seed Bank of Berries at Risk of Demolition
