Leonardo Togno, a "seed curator" from INTA, collects vegetable varieties as if they were trading cards:

Your daily work might remind you of the best schoolyard recesses, when trading stickers to fill an album was a mandatory appointment. The truth is that agronomist Leonardo Togno is in charge of collecting seeds as if they were stickers so that the INTA La Consulta bank has the most comprehensive collection of vegetables and aromatic plants. He is the main one in Argentina of this type. This germplasm bank to help producers in a zone very specialized in these types of crops (and Cuyo is one) was initiated in the nineties and, until now, has accumulated some 5,000 different varieties, of which 40% correspond to tomatoes, a fruit highly produced in Mendoza, San Juan, and La Rioja. The curious thing about Leonardo's work is that he acts as a "curator" of the experimental station, and instead of doing so with pictorial or sculptural samples, he does it with seeds. "This great collection is a genetic heritage that helps us have a response to problems that may occur in the future," the ...