“…It is also the home of many of the world's most important crops owing to millennia of plant breeding by the cultures of Mexico, Central America, and the Andes (Gepts, 2010). Some of the crops are well known, such as maize (Guzzon et al., 2021), common bean (Rendón‐Anaya et al., 2017), potatoes (Fajardo‐Escoffié, 2022), tomatoes (Razifard et al., 2020), avocado (Rendón‐Anaya et al., 2019), papaya (Yue et al., 2022), cacao (Bolaños‐Villegas & Argüello‐Miranda, 2019), and vanilla (Watteyn et al., 2023). Others are less well known but still important in terms of food security and cultural identity for local communities.…”