Seed Store Set for Destruction
Monday, June 28, 2010
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"VITAL SEED STORE SET FOR DESTRUCTION"
New Scientist 26.6.10 The world's largest scientific repository of fruits & berries near St. Petersbury in Russia could be bulldozed later this year to make way for housing.
Cary Fowler director of Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome called for scientific intervention to prevent "The largest intentional preventable loss of crop diversity in my lifetime."
The Pavlovsk storage has 4,000 varieties of fruit & berry seeds.
New Scientist 26.6.10 The world's largest scientific repository of fruits & berries near St. Petersbury in Russia could be bulldozed later this year to make way for housing.
Cary Fowler director of Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome called for scientific intervention to prevent "The largest intentional preventable loss of crop diversity in my lifetime."
The Pavlovsk storage has 4,000 varieties of fruit & berry seeds.
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