The Incredible Story That Changed the World's Food Production
In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would claim the lives of three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world’s largest collection of seeds, more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over two decades from all over the globe by world-famous explorers, geneticist, and dissident Nikolai Vavilov.
These were not just any seeds. The botanists believed they could be bred into heartier, disease-resistant, and more…
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