G2P-SOL aims at bringing into full fruition the seeds from tens of thousands of genetic accessions of the four major Solanaceous food crops (potato, tomato, pepper and eggplant) that are stored in ‘genebanks’ worldwide.
Understanding and utilising this genetic diversity is key to the sustainability of agriculture in the face of a changing environment and the appearance of new pests. This is currently hampered by the scarce publicly available information on the variability of collections preserved in different genebanks. In order to raise awareness of the available diversity and stimulate its usage in breeding programmes G2P-SOL wants to make all the genetic material that is presently stored in genebanks available to the general public, scientists and breeders.