Destroyed “Turgenev Oak” cloned by Russian scientists

In 2021, a powerful hurricane destroyed a 200-year-old tree, which, according to rumors, was planted by Turgenev himself.

However, scientists from the All-Russian Research Institute of Forest Genetics managed to clone the destroyed oak, TASS reports with reference to the All-Russian Research Institute. Discuss

The tragedy occurred in 2021, when the strongesthurricane in the area of ​​the Spasskoye-Lutovinovo museum-reserve in the Oryol region, the famous "Turgenev Oak" was knocked down and destroyed. It was the main relic of the writer's mother's estate. It is believed that Ivan Turgenev planted it sometime between 1828 and 1838.

Now it is already in a test tube, in glass, smalloak tree Not one, (there are) five, they are in different states. Relatively speaking, we now have the "Turgenev Oak" in several copies in vitro. Microclone exists.

Oleg KorchaginActing Director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Forest Genetics