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Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdowns

  • Written by Matt Kasson, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Mycology, West Virginia University
Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdownsCampus shutdowns mean researchers must be classified as essential personnel to tend collections, like these fungus-colonized plants.Cameron Stauder, CC BY-ND

During World War II, a devoted group of botanists guarded the world’s oldest collection of plants over the 28-month-long siege of Leningrad. Nearly a dozen of them starved to death,...

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