# Uses of seed banks! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [November 24, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/uses-of-seed-banks/4401 "2025-11-24T12:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![ThomasPicard](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/thomaspicard/32/6491_2.png) [@ThomasPicard](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/ThomasPicard)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/uses-of-seed-banks/4401/7 "2025-11-25T09:03:51Z")
This is the other post I did made with **Eurisco** screenshots (= IPK-Gatersleben database of all European seedbanks). About Kiwano. > [@Landrace legislation in the world (Janurary 2024 paper)](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/landrace-legislation-in-the-world-janurary-2024-paper/2204/2): > > Curious of these kiwanos or the [Eurisco database](https://eurisco.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/eurisco_ws/r/eurisco/eurisco-download-by-species)? About what is in the european fridges, as far as Kiwanos are concerned… Just type in Cucumis then metuliferus Here how it looks like at this stage: And then it is sorted by country I nearly started with a fruitful search, in Spain: 40 accessions Of which about 30 landraces or so. In the SAMPSTAT column there is a code for landraces: it is “300” Found 9 other accessions in Germany, 2 in Hungary, 5 in Romania, and 7 in … I’ll do a more comprehensive recap later - _and we’ll condense Stephane’s and I’s presentations in a pdf_ - but the little nugget in that one is that **there is a code for landraces : it’s “300” in the SAMPSTAT column of Eurisco**. The ladies from “_D’une Graine aux Autres_” non profit ([facebook](https://www.facebook.com/p/Dune-graine-aux-autres-100085549584929/), [podcast](https://podcast.ausha.co/cultivez-la-biodiversite)) taught us that in a webinar 2 years ago : as they are doing modern landracing in broadacre crops mostly with an organic mindset they absolutely want not to mess around with all the traffics made with seeds since the 70s, so they only use “landraces” - all collected before that - as “ingredients” of their PEPS (they coined the acronym), before adoption by farmers. Those who were in Antibes will remember their long process of studying the crops in the field and doing seed increase before doing any kind of mixes for known purposes. They would explain that “when you get accessions out of seedbanks you still have to study them”, in other words : data’s lacking. Nonetheless the code 300 may be interesting to some. Link to their intervention in French here : [https://youtu.be/6ztQKr7h-GE?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/6ztQKr7h-GE?feature=shared) --- _[View the full topic](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/uses-of-seed-banks/4401)._