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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
Campus 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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