Institute of Plant Industry
- Institute of Plant Industry
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In the back of the
equestrian statue of Nikolai I near St Isaac's Cathedral is No. 4 Building of the Institute of Plant Industry
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.
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. In 2010 the plant collection at the Pavlovsk Experimental Station was to be destroyed to make way for luxury housing.[1]
See also
- Plant genetics
- Lysenkoism
- VASKhNIL (the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union)
- Pavlovsk Experimental Station
References
External links
Categories:
- Research institutes in Russia
- Research institutes in the Soviet Union
- Science and technology in Russia
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