Oh, the ambitious dreams we have in our youth - before we encounter the hard wall of reality.
I know. There was me and the wrinkled soybean project, if you remember (the one where I thought that wrinkled soybeans might have the same recessive gene as wrinkled peas, and that, since that gene makes peas sweeter, it would make soybeans sweeter as well, and make a tastier edamame.). THAT part of the plan was probably feasible. The part about this new soybean TOTALLY REPLACING all existing commercial edamame soybeans, or even being included in them in any significant manner, probably wasn't. That would mean going up against the WHOLE INDUSTRY, and decades, if not centuries of tradition. Even if something IS better, people often go for the old thing, because they are used to it. The current type is "good enough".
It's sort of the same as the thing with Corn Belt corns. By now, most people (at least, most nutritionists). KNOW that colored corns have more healthy nutrients than white or yellow ones. But I very much doubt that a plan to replace the corns of the corn belt with colored ones, or even INCLUDE colored eating corns as part of the regular commercial stock, would get very far. In fact they seem to have spent some time PURGING the colored corns from the belt stock (remember, Bloody Butcher was once a corn belt corn). Blue corn products EXIST, but they are still very much a niche product (and I'm not sure that much, if any, research has been done in making a more commercially friendly blue corn.)
People are working like CRAZY to try and modify the Cavendish banana so it can resist Panama disease. but even if they do, if someone suggested that maybe they could try and do the same to the Gros Michel (the previous "top banana") and bring it back, they'd be laughed out of the business.
Heck I'd be happy to just read an article that some scientist in South East Asia tried shooting some radiation at some mangosteens to mutate them and give the species SOME genetic diversity (every mangosteen on earth is genetically identical, which means they are on disease away from extinction.)
Even my walnut project, if I ever got it to fruition would probably never actually GET anywhere. I could present my product and it could be perfect, but such industry as there was would probably shrug and say "Eh, what we have is good enough."
Actually, a lot of people have said that one of my major problems in life is I NEVER LOST those dreams, that I never reached the point where I said "Eh, the world is what it is, no way to change it."
But as Robert Browning once said "Man's reach should exceed man's grasp, or what else is Heaven for?"
Steve
I wish I could get on the "list" you mentioned 
The only seed I'm still waiting for is a swap negotiated two days ago, from someone I've traded with before. So planning can finally begin in earnest.
