Pavlovsk Experimental Station is an agricultural experiment station and gene bank that is part of the Institute of Plant Industry and situated in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, Russia.
One of the Pavlovsk Station buildings. Many of the varieties at Pavlovsk are stored not as seeds in a vault but as plants in a field.
Nikolai Vavilov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. His research focused on improvement of wheat, maize an
Pavlovsk Experimental Station
…that is part of the Institute of Plant Industry and situated in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, Russia. It was started in 1926 by agricultural scientist Nikolai Vavilov and contains an extensive collection of more than 5,000 varieties of fruits and berries. The Pavlovsk station's collection contains more than 100…
Vavilov in 1933
Vavilov's 1924 scheme of centers of origin suggested that plants were domesticated in China, Hindustan, Central Asia, Asia Minor, Mediterranean, Abyssinia, Central and South America.
Vavilov created the world's first seed bank in the Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad.
Vavilov (fifth from left) alongside geneticist Albert Boerger during his visit to Uruguay in 1932