Genetic resources are the foundation of plant breeding activities. They are the source of important traits required e.g., for disease resistance breeding. Genetic resources also play an important role in terms of food security as they store genetically diverse and living plant material. For clonally propagated plants, such as potato, it is not possible to store seeds. One needs to store and maintain living plant material perpetually. Furthermore, one must be able to identify and verify plant varieties. These are key activities covered in the proposed VitroPlant project: We propose maintaining the potato collection (soon a legal) and other in vitro plants that are important for Agroscope research projects. We also propose modernizing variety identification methods using the latest sequencing technologies and in-house bioinformatic developments. Finally, the in vitro expertise maintained in this project will play a key role in the establishment of genome editing for crops bred at Agroscope and ensuring our breeding activities to be future proof.