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Nikolai Vavilov: Who was the Indiana Jones of Botany?
Nikolai Vavilov: Who was the Indiana Jones of Botany?
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Released:
Aug 10, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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