N.I. Vavilov - his role in the formation of the science of cultivated plants

Abstract

There is a brief chronological history of talented scientist and biologist of the XX century N.I. Vavilov was presented. N.I. Vavilov was organizer and leader in agricultural science in the USSR. He was the first in the world who created the largest genetic bank of cultivated plants. N.I. Vavilov discovered the law of homological rows and established the centers of an origin of cultural plants. N.I. Vavilov is founder of the doctrine of plant immunity.