Ukraine’s agricultural research is threatened by the war
A gene bank in Kharkiv has escaped by the skin of its teeth
It was a moment of horror. In a video posted on the internet on May 14th Sergey Avramenko, a researcher at the National Gene Bank of Plants of Ukraine, the world’s tenth-largest such facility, ran his fingers through bags of charred seeds. “Everything turned to ashes,” he grieved.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “A close-run thing”
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