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The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist-and vivid storyteller-has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes Fr

Centers of plant diversity. --- Plant collecting. --- Botanical specimens --- Food crops --- Collection and preservation. --- Germplasm resources --- Vavilov, N. I.

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Biodiversity --- Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Food supply --- Slow food movement --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversité agricole --- Aliments --- Slow Food (Mouvement) --- Conservation --- Approvisionnement --- Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich, --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversité agricole --- Vavilov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, --- Vavilov, N. I.

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Finally published in English, this book contains descriptions by academician N.I. Vavilov of the expeditions he made between 1916 and 1940 to five continents, in search of new agricultural plants and confirmation of his theories on plant genetic diversity. Vavilov is ironic, mischievous, perceptive, hilarious and above all scholarly. This book is a readable testament to his tenacity and belief in his work, in the face of the greatest adversity.

Ressource végétale --- Plant resources --- Biodiversité --- Biodiversity --- Région biogéographique --- Biogeographic regions --- Distribution géographique --- Geographical distribution --- Italy --- Portugal --- Bavaria --- Denmark --- France --- Netherlands --- Great Britain --- USA --- Canada --- 631.52 --- 581.9 --- Phytogeography --- Plant collecting --- Plants. --- RBINS-OTHER --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Botanical collecting --- Plant hunting --- Wild plant collecting --- Collectors and collecting --- Botanical specimens --- Botanical geography --- Geobotany --- Geographical distribution of plants --- Plant distribution --- Plant geography --- Plant species --- Plants --- Biogeography --- Disjunct plants --- Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants --- Collection and preservation --- Vavilov, N. I. --- -Travel --- HIS History & Biographies --- Afghanistan --- Algeria --- Amu-Darya river --- Brazil = Brasil --- Central America --- China --- Crete --- Cyprus --- Eritrea --- Ethiopia --- Greece --- Iran --- Japan --- Korea --- Morocco --- North America --- Nuristan --- Palestine --- Pamirs --- South America --- Spain --- Syria --- Taiwan --- Trans-Jordan --- Tunisia --- centre of origin --- cultivated plants --- expeditions --- history and biographies --- the Mediterranean ( = region ) --- 581.9 Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants --- 631.52 Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Botanical identification --- Plant identification --- Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc --- Вавилов, Н. И. --- Vavilov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, --- Vavílov, Nicolás I. --- Vavílov, Nicolás Ivanovich, --- Vavilov, Nicholai I. --- Wawilow, N., --- Vavylov, M. I. --- Travel. --- Vavilov, Nikolaj --- Caucase