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Nature 456, 707-708 (11 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/456707a; Published online 10 December 2008
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A method for accelerating growth of soybean shoots is desired.
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Back to the roots of crop farming
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BOOK REVIEWED-Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Island Press: 2008. 266 pp. $24.95, £21.50
In 1941, when German and Finnish troops threatened to besiege the Russian city of Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Soviet leaders hurried to authorize the evacuation of the art collection from the city's Hermitage museum. Another extraordinary treasure, then the world's largest collection of more than 380,000 food crop samples housed at Leningrad's All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences, did not receive such privileged treatment; it survived the 1941–44 Leningrad blockade only through the virtue of committed individuals.
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