Simon Parkin’s gripping, sensitive account is punctuated by violence and murder The idea was revolutionary — yet there was something ancient at its heart. The scientist Nikolai Vavilov, arriving in Petrograd in 1921 to take the helm of the Bureau of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding, was on a sacred mission: to make, in his words, “a treasury of all known crops and plants.” The world’s first seed bank would shape the future of agriculture — possibly even eliminate failed harvests and hunger.

Tag-uri: Agricultura