The country’s unique and one of the world’s largest Plant Gene Resources Banks in Ukraine was destroyed, as a result of massive shelling by the Russian army in Kharkiv.
Source: Doctor of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine Serhiy Avramenko, a leading researcher at the Yuriev Institute of Plant Industry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
There were stored samples of more than 160 thousand varieties of plants from around the world, which were collected over decades.
Ukrainian Plant Gene Bank survived the Second World War, and the occupation of Kharkiv, but did not survive the invasion of the Russians.
“It saddens me to say that under Hitler’s Germany, when the whole of Ukraine was under occupation, the Germans did not destroy this collection; on the contrary, they tried to preserve it, keep parts of it safe, because they knew their descendants might need it. After all, every country’s food security depends on such banks of genetic resources.”
“Everything has turned to ashes – tens of thousands of samples of seed material! Including varieties that are hundreds of years old, which can no longer be restored. Everything burned down,” said the scientist.
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