Nikolai Vavilov: Who was the Indiana Jones of Botany?
Stuff You Missed in History Class
August 10, 201121m 52s
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Show Notes
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.
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