the flagship collection of the belarusian bank of the gene fund of plants and crops is kept behind itsour academy of sciences. it has a scientific and practical center for agriculture; its headquarters are located in zhodino. there are rooms with sophisticated equipment, thermostats, and almost 47,000 collectible plant specimens. they, as in the advanced storage facilities of the world, sleep in aluminum envelopes and jars, packaged in small portions. you. including the best foreign and purely belarusian varieties. there are those that have no analogues at all in the world, for example, kopylyanka wheat, which was recognized as unique and was taken to that same planetary storage facility on spitsbergen. this collection exists because alexander lukashenko did not allow the soviet school of seed production to be destroyed. the president instructed the country's biologists and geneticists to develop a program for preserving the gene pool of plants. and now the result of this program is recognized nationally property. and based on samples from the collection , our scientists. they are brou