Where to get Wild Tomato Genetics!

[ThomasPicard]

@JesseI

This one has thousands of wild accessions. Some really high altitude that would be nice for cold hardiness breeding. Unfortunately for me it’s in US and I’m not quite sure how ordering process would work. It says they generally dont provide seeds for gardeners/amateur breeders, but I to me it sounds like it’s not definite no. Maybe if someone ask for the whole comminity they could send. I mean, with one package they could share the genetics with hundreds of people within 2 years if someone does little propagation.

Good idea there.

Just went on Eurisco (IPK / Gatersleben) shortly after reading this. There you go: adress: https://eurisco.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/eurisco_ws/r/eurisco/home

click on passport data

search for the taxon you want. Example solanum habrocaites

Apply, then comes the results:

Here 94 accessions in Europe

Then you click on it and comes a page with the list of countries possessing them:

Then you can click on each country:
here part of the spanish table

So the holding institution code is : ESP026, but more important you can click on the icon which will lead you to the holder:
So you click on that small icon on the right

Then you go there

And then on the FAO webpage you find the contact:

So get me right: you can"t order but you can ask for, or just ask for details (where it comes from precisely, etc.). And they might accept sending it to you. In general they appreciate this fact of sharing seeds… but you know that is “in general”, so you never know.
That is what I have done for some cereals, signed up up an SMTAs and they arrived shortly. They did not ask for anything special, or nearly.
That is how I found about 40 accessions of Kiwano in Europe… Then I did not do anything, it was to late in season, and it is a bit time consuming.