The managers of these seed banks, including the one at the Smithsonian Institute, and their researchers are well versed on handling the seeds, their propagation to elicit more seeds. I am quite confident the seeds are well cataloged. I would think by now there would be a network of inventory among those that participate in these specialties.
Plan to crossbreed crops with their wild cousins to help boost resistance to climate change (click here)
July 28, 2013
...More than half the 455 known crop wild relatives of the world’s 29 most-consumed food plants have either not been collected at all, or are badly under-represented, making it essential to build stocks as soon as possible, warns Jonas Mueller, of the Kew Millennium Seed Bank....Additionally, there are herbariums at nearly every teaching institution in the world. Within those herbariums are vast stores of dormant seeks well preserved. I hardly believe the search and research in obtaining species of hardy plants is over to resort to GMOs.
