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
Campus shutdowns mean researchers must be classified as essential personnel to tend collections, like these fungus-colonized plants.Cameron Stauder, CC BY-NDDuring 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,...