Beyond a century of conservation of cultivated plant diversity

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Beyond a century of conservation of cultivated plant diversity

Agroscope and the Honorary Consulate General of Russia in Lausanne invite you cordially to a scientific conference in memory of N.I. Vavilov: Beyond a century of conservation of cultivated plant diversity. A wine tasting with old landraces and recent grape varieties will follow the conference.

Among the speakers on this day :

Orateurs :

  • Two scientist from the Vavilov Institute in St. Petersburg
  • Beate Schierscher, Swiss National Genebank, Agroscope
  • Several scientists of the group « Plant breeding and genetic resources » from Agroscope
  • And some more interesting scientists

 Invitations to follow

Note : Nikolai I. VAVILOV (1887-1943), a russian scientist-explorer, recognized by the international scientific community, who left an invaluable legacy still conserved in the N.I. VavilovAll-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources in St. Petersburg. It  is the oldest seed bank in the world with a collection of over 300’000 samples of seed.

 


Ort

Aula of Agroscope, Route de Duillier 50, 1260 Nyon 1

By registration only

 

 

Veranstalter

This conference is based on an initiative of Courant 812, an association created in 2013 to foster bilateral economic relations between both France and Switzerand along the Rhone river.

Datum / Zeiten
22.09.2021
10:00 - 16:30

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