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Germplasm banks

Most crops have many accessions stored in genebanks, or germplasm banks, that are available free of charge or with a shipping and handling fee, for example, the

USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/).
The CGIAR system has a number of genebanks around the world:  http://www.cgiar.org/impact/accessions.htm.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) genebank in Los Banos, Philippines, stores over 80,000 accessions of rice.