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Pavlovsk Experimental Station is an agricultural experiment station and gene bank that is part of the Institute of Plant Industry and situated in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, Russia. ==History== It was started in 1926 by agricultural scientist Nikolai Vavilov and contains an extensive collection of more than 5,000 varieties of fruits and berries. The Pavlovsk station's collection contains more than 100 varieties each of gooseberries, raspberries, and cherries. It also contains more than 1,000 varieties of strawberries. More than 90% of the collection is found in no other research collection or genebank. The collection is a field genebank, meaning that the varieties are stored as plants in the ground. Most of the species concerned do not breed true from seeds, and so the varieties cannot be stored as seeds. The Pavlovsk station itself fell into German hands during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941–1944, but prior to the arrival of German troops, scientists from the Institute of Plant Industry were able to move much of the station's tuber collection to a location within the city. Twelve of these scientists died of starvation while protecting the Institute's edible collection of tubers and seeds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Celebrated Russian Seed Bank Fights For Its Land )〕 In 2010 the experimental station faced an uncertain future, because the land it sits on is being sold to a developer who plans to build private homes on the site.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russian Ministry of Economic Development adopts resolutions destroying the European largest field genebank and replacing it with commercial cottages )〕 If this planned development had gone forward, much of the collection would have been lost. Due to technical issues and quarantine regulations, it would not have been feasible to move the collection before demolition of the station was slated to have begun.〔 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently announced via Twitter that the issue will be "scrutinised".〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher = Kremlin Russia tweet )〕 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had not yet responded to public calls to save the experimental station and its collection as of the end of 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vital fruit and berry collection set for destruction )〕 However, in April of 2012 the Russian government took formal action to preserve this important genetic repository and stop the land from being conveyed to private interests for development. http://www.vir.nw.ru/news/14.05.2012_en.html 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pavlovsk Experimental Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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