For no other reason than that I like playing with Google Earth, here’s a map of Egyptian germplasm in the Millennium Seed Bank (red dots), which are duplicates of some of the material at the recently looted Deserts Gene Bank, and in Genesys (which covers the CG Centre genebanks contributing to SINGER, the European genebanks contributing to EURISCO, and the genebanks of the USDA system). The red markers are wild material, the green cultivated.
Now, do you see that row of green markers in the middle of the desert in the south of the country?
Those turn out to be various vegetables from three different genebanks in the USA and Europe. Which nicely illustrates the usefulness of bringing datasets together. And playing with Google Earth.