The Vavilov institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the most important in Europe and it looks set to lose a vitally important research station housing more than 4000 fruit and berry species, many of which are extinct in their natural habitats. Since these are live plants, they cannot be preserved by storing seeds or other materials in a seedbank, they must be kept growing. This research station, consisting of 910,000 sq meters, is the largest field genebank in Europe. Staff at the faci
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