Use of novel approaches or technologies to improve the efficiency of, or reduce the resources associated with, seed production of vegetable crops germplasm and/or their wild relatives Use of emerging technologies, such as high-throughput phenotyping or the use of robotics, to capture characterization data in the field or greenhouse Applications of artificial intelligence in efforts characterize or conserve vegetable crops germplasm Use of molecular/NGS approaches to characterize collections or populations of vegetable crops genetic resources Studies characterizing vegetable crops germplasm collections using traditional (morphological data) approaches Studies and technologies used to identify the occurrence and distribution of vegetable crop species and their wild relatives Selection of vegetable crop core collections