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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.
Non-fiction books by year (352 C) Novels by year (336 C) Poetry books by year (182 C) Short story collections by year (189 C) 0–9. 1000 books (2 P) 1002 books (1 P)
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]
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 ...
In 1921 he met Nikolai Vavilov who was visiting and helped organize an exchange of books, livestock, and seeds between the US and the USSR. Vavilov helped set up a Russian Agricultural Bureau with a New York Branch under Borodin and a publication called the Review of American Agriculture was produced. Borodin was removed from the position in 1927.
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See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes.
He then worked on sugar beet at the Sugar Trust where he continued studies on genetics for plant breeding. He travelled briefly and met Nikolai Vavilov who helped him with the latest literature from Leningrad in 1922. He returned to Kyiv and began to work on a book, The Material Basis of Heredity, which was published in 1924. Vavilov invited ...