this genetic bank is, as it were, a clone from the great all-union institute of plant industry, whichocated in st. petersburg, its foundation was laid by the great soviet scientist vavilov, and in that bank there were and are, so to speak, those sources from which our bank went there is a worldwide collection. we are mainly focused on varieties, varieties and samples of agricultural plants, which, so to speak, are located on our territory in our closest neighbors. e, the bank was created and operates with the aim of preserving and further using those genetic resources that in nature there are those who could say, for example, that even 20-30 years ago, that baking wheat would be grown on the territory of the republic of belarus. all wheat was imported, as a rule, from kazakhstan and russia, ukraine. and we were specialized in the production of feed. you are not cattle, meat produced or can be produced by the soviet union as soon as we became independent we needed our own wheat, using the genetic resources that were at that time, we created the first varieties. now this is a whole syst