Over here it's no problem to get potato seeds, I even got seeds from solanum phureja, and that's really one of the 'wild' potatoes. Many selections from the past centuries came from seed, people have crossed solanum tuberosum with solanum demissum, for instance, to create a higher resistance level against the colorado beetle. Also, many crosses have been made in order to reduce the late blight sicknesss,
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