> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 685](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212727) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11102-1) LSID 11102-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214926) QID Q214926 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Vavilov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1887-1943), Russian botanist, agronomist, geneticist and phytogeographer; studied at the Moscow Agricultural Institute 1906-1911, reserach assistant ib. 1911-1912; with the Bureau of Applied Botany and the Bureau of Mycology, St. Petersburg 1912-1913; studied at the University of Cambridge and the John Innes Institution 1913-1914; teacher at Moscow University 1914-1916; explored Iran and Pamir 1916-1917; professor of genetics at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute and id. of agronomy at Saratov University 1917-1920; head of the department of applied botany Petrograd 1920-1924; in charge of the All Union Institute of applied botany (later id. of plant breeding, VIR) 1924, set up the All Union Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1929-1935; travelled widely 1929-1940, collecting economic plants. **Abbreviated name**: *Vavilov* \[standard form in IPNI: *Vavilov*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WIR|WIR]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 428 (b. 26 Nov 1887, d. 2 Aug 1942); BFM 2983; Biol.-Dokum. 18: 9521; BM 8: 1359; Bossert p. 416; DSB 15: 505-513 (extensive list sec. lit.; bibl., b. 25 Nov 1887, d. 26 Jan 1943); IH 1 (ed. 1): 71, (ed. 2): 89, (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 345; Langman p. 773; Lenley p. 422; LS suppl. 28553-28556; MW p. 512-513, suppl. 383-384; TL-2/see M. Lagasca, E.N. Sinskaya; Zander ed. 10, p. 727, ed. 11, p. 830. #### Biofile - Anon., Great Soviet Encyclopaedia ed. 3. 4: 540-541. 1974 (d. 26 Jan 1943); J. Heredity 37: 15. 1946 (question of V.'s death), 47(1): portr. facing p. 47. 1956 ("scientific resuscitation"). - Bachteev, F.Ch. (Bakhteyev, F.Kh.), Der Züchter 128(4): 161-166. 1958 (biogr. sketch, d. 2 Aug 1942); Quart. Rev. Biol. 35(2): 115-119. 1960 (id. 1, Bot. Zhurn. 53(4): 544-545. 1968, Theoret. Appl. Genet., Berlin 38: 79-84. 1968; Int. Org. Plant Biosyst., Newsletter 3: 1-4. 1970 (Vavilov and biosystematics); Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Biol. 1: 119-131. 1980. - Berdyshev, G.D. et al., Tsitol. Genet. 12(2): 174-179. 1978. - Cohen, B.M., J. Heredity 66: 315-316. 1975. - Daintith, J. et al., Biogr. encycl. scientists 808. 1981. - Darlington, C.D., Nineteenth Century 142: 158-162. 1947. (The retreat from science in Soviet Russia; Vavilov-Lysenko controversy). - Dobzhansky, Th., J. Heredity 38(8): 226-232. 1947 (martyr of genetics). - Fedorov, A.A. et al., Nicolay Ivanovich Vavilov, Moscow 1967 (biogr., compl. bibl.); - Mat. biobibl. Ucen. SSSR, Biol. Genet. no. 1, 131 p., biography). - Gaissinovitch, A.F., Folia mendeliana 3: 55-58. 1968. - Gates, R.R., Science and Culture 12(3): 423-427. 1947 (Vavilov and the Soviets). - Gould, S.J., Nat. Hist. 90: 14. 1881 (most chilling statement). - Govorukhina, V.A., Izv. Akad. Nauk Turkm. SSR, Biol. Nauk 6: 3-8. 1977. - Harland, S.C., Obit. not. R. Soc, London 1954: 259-264. - Harland, S.C. & C.D. Darlington, Nature 156: 621-622. 1945. - Joravsky, D., Slavic Rev. 24: 381-394. 1965 (the Vavilov brothers). - Kupzow, A.J., Econ. Bot. 29(4): 372-379. 1975 (Vavilov's Law of homologous series). - Lavrenko, E.M., Bot. Zhurn. 53(4): 427-429. 1968. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 758. 1985. - Leppik, E.E., Econ. Bot. 23(2): 128-132. 1969 (biogr. sketch). - Malato-Beliz, Lagascalia 6(2): 209-214. 1976 (on M. Lagasca y Segura and V.). - Mangelsdorf, P.C., Genetics 38(1): 1-4. 1953. - Orel, V., Genetika, Moskva 5(3): 178-180. 1969. - Samorodov, V.N. & V.N. Pomogailo, Ukr. Bot. Zhurn. 35(3): 327. 1978. - Starr Chester, K., transl. Selected writings of N.I. Vavilov, Chron. bot. 13: i-xviii, 1-364. 1951. - Vavilov, Y.N., Ryadom s N.I. Vavilovym, Moscow 1963. - Vavilov, N.I., Izbrannye Proivedenia, 2 vols., Leningrad 1967 (selected works). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 446 \[index\]. 1935, 2: 477 \[index\]. 1936, 3: 429 \[index\]. 1937, 4: 596 \[index\]. 1938, 5: 555 \[index\]. 1939, 6: 475 \[index\]. 1941, 7: 459 \[index\]. 1923; *in* Starr Chester, K., ed., and transl. of N.I. Vavilov, Origin, variation, immunity and breeding of cultivated plants, Chron. bot. 13: v. 1951 (portr., with biogr. caption). - Werner, V., Scientist versus society 136-150. 1975. - Whitaker, T.W., Econ. Bot. 23(2): 132. 1969. - Williams, T.I., Biogr. dict. scientists 528-529. 1969. - Zhukovsky, P.M., Bot. Zhurn. 43: 905-511. 1958. #### Composite works With E.V. Wulff editor of *Kyltyrnaia flora SSR*, 1935-1958, 20 vols. #### Selected writings *The origin, variation, immunity and breeding of cultivated plants*, translated from the Russian by K. Starr Chester, Chronica botanica 13, 1951, 364 p. – Also *Izbrannye trudy*, 5 vols., Moscow-Leningrad, 1959-1965; *Izbrannye sochinenia*: genetika i selektsia, Moscow 1966, and *Izbrannye proizvedenia*, ed. F.K. Bakhteev, 2 vols. Leningrad 1967 (with biogr. and complete bibliography). #### Eponymy *Vavilova* Fedorov (1939). #### Postage stamps Soviet Union 4 k. (1977), yv. 4364. ### Publications ##### n.15.959. Beiträge zur Frage über die verschiedene Widerstandsfähigkeit der Getreide gegen para- sitische Pilze **Title** *Beiträge zur Frage über die verschiedene Widerstandsfähigkeit der Getreide gegen parasitische Pilze*... Moskva 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1913 (p. 108: Apr 1913), p. \[1\]-108, \[109-110\], *pl. 1-3. Copy*: FH. – Arb. Versuchsstat. Pflanzenzücht. Mosk. landw. Inst. I. Folge. *English abstract*: Jun 1914, cover-t.p., p. \[49\]-65, *Immunity to fungous diseases* as a physiological test in genetics and systematics, exemplified in cereals, J. Genetics 4(1): \[49\]-65-1914. ##### n.15.960. The law of homologous series in variation **Title** *The law of homologous series in variation*... Cambridge (at the University Press) 1922. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1922, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[47\]-89, *pl. 9-10. Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Genetics 12(1): 47-89. *pl. 9-10.* 1922. ##### n.15.961. A contribution to the classification of soft wheats **Title** *A contribution to the classification of soft wheats* Triticum vulgare Vill \[sic\] Petrograd 1923. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1923, cover-t.p., p. \[149\]-257, *pl. 1-4. Copy*: B-S. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trud. prikl. Bot. Selekc. (Bull. appl. Bot. Select.) 13(1): 149-257. 1923. ##### n.15.962. A contribution to the phylogenesis of wheat **Title** *A contribution to the phylogenesis of wheat* and the inter-species hybridisation in wheats... Leningrad 1925. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. phylog. wheats*. **Notes** *Co-author*: O. Jakushhina. *Publ*.: 1925, p. \[1\]-159. *Copy*: NY. – Issued as Trudy prikl. Bot. Selekc. (Bull. appl. Bot. Select.) 15, 1925. ##### n.15.963. Studies on the origin of cultivated plants **Title** *Studies on the origin of cultivated plants*... Leningrad 1926. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stud. orig. cult. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-248, 5 maps. *Copy*: NY. – Issued as Trudy prikl. Bot. Selekc. (Bull. appl. Bot. Select.) 16, 1926. ##### n.15.964. Agricultural Afghanistan **Title** *Agricultural Afghanistan*... (composed on the basis of data and materials of the Expedition of the Institute of applied Botany to Afghanistan)... Leningrad 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Agr. Afghanist.* **Notes** *Co-author*: D.D. Bukinich. *Publ*.: 1929 (BR rd. 9 Apr 1929), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-610, \[i\]-xxxii, maps, *pl. Copy*: BR. ##### n.15.965. The role of Central Asia in the origin of cultivated plants **Title** *The role of Central Asia in the origin of cultivated plants*... Leningrad 1931. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1931, cover-t.p., p. \[3\]-44. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trudy prikl. Bot. Genet. Selekc. (Bull. appl. Bot. Genet. Pl. Breed.) 26(3). 1931.