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A Vavilov Center (of Diversity) is a region of the world first indicated by Nikolai Vavilov to be an original center for the domestication of plants. [4] For crop plants, Nikolai Vavilov identified differing numbers of centers: three in 1924, five in 1926, six in 1929, seven in 1931, eight in 1935 and reduced to seven again in 1940. [5] [6]
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, [3] HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] ⓘ; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
The Institute of Plant Industry was established in 1921 in Leningrad by Nikolai Vavilov who set about to create the world's first and largest collection of plant seeds. . Already in 1916 he did his first collection trip abroad, to Iran, and by 1932 he had collected seeds from almost every country in the world, which by 1933 had made the institute the largest seed bank in the world, with more ...
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. [1] The Pavlovsk station's collection contains more than 100 varieties each of gooseberries, raspberries, and cherries. It also contains more than 1,000 varieties of strawberries.
Vavilov Meteorological Station [56] October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya Russia Soviet Union 1974 1988 Willem Barents Biological Station [57] Meduza Bay, Krasnoyarsk Krai Russia Soviet Union Wrangel Island Cape Blossom Station [58] Cape Blossom, Wrangel Island, Chukotka Russia Soviet Union Wrangel Island Ushakovskoye Station [59]
Once there, she became assistant head of the institute's experimental seed station. In 1926, she married Vavilov. [3] [4] Seeds of Lens culinaris, the cultivated lentil. Barulina studied them with their wild relatives and ancestors. Barulina became the center's expert on lentils, [5] eventually classifying them into six groups. [6]
IMO, it would be better to have this article entitled "Vavilov Centres", because there are other things than domesticated plants which might have "centers of origin", but Vavilov Centre refers specifically to the geographical origins of plant domestication. 101.117.84.247 00:15, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
With reference to Lupinus, Vavilov considered the Mediterranean region and mountain areas of Mexico, Peru and others American countries as the centers of origin for this genus. Kurlovich, based on the differential systematic-geographical method of plants studies provided for more precise definition of the centers of formation and origin ...