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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Russia destroys the Ukrainian seed bank during the invasion.
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 10:11:56 -0700

Destruction of the unique gene pool of plants of Ukraine and the whole
world
May 14, 2022
Український агроном
By purposeful bombing, the Russian army destroyed the world's plant gene
pool in Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of plant varieties from around the world have ceased to
exist ...
At one time, even the German Nazis could not afford such a crime ...
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cito
comment posted to the ukrainianconflict Reddit sub
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This is a disaster for plant science around the world.
Russian troops completely destroyed Ukraine's only National Center for
Plant Genetic Resources in Kharkiv. This was announced on YouTube by Serhii
Avramenko, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, a leading researcher at Yuriev
Institute of Plant Breeding.
"The seeds were already being prepared for sowing in March (for varietal
renewal, when the existing seeds are sown every few years and a new one is
put into storage - ed.) After the "Russkiy mir", this horde of
"liberators", came, everything turned to ashes.
Tens of thousands of samples. This is a world collection. Including
varieties that are hundreds years old, which we will not be able to
restore. It was hell, the aluminum melted. Everything burned down,"
Avramenko said. According to his words, the bank stored more than 160
thousand varieties and hybrids from around the world. He stressed that
there were no military or territorial defense forces on the territory of
the bank.
"This is a purely scientific institution that was deliberately destroyed,
targeted at the very place where the bank of plant genetic resources was
stored," said the scientist.
The bank, which has a long history, survived even during the Third Reich
occupation, but did not survive the Russian military.
"I am sad to admit that in the days of Hitler's Germany, when the whole of
Ukraine was under occupation, the Germans did not destroy this collection,
but instead tried to preserve something, to hide something, because they
knew that their descendants would need it.
Because it is a question of food security of each country. Plant breeders
from all over the world, all countries, including Russia, ordered and
received samples from this gene bank to create their own varieties, adapted
to the area,"- said the scientist.
source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1526235931950424065.html
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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com



  • [permaculture] Russia destroys the Ukrainian seed bank during the invasion., Lawrence London, 05/17/2022

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