Which labs? Or do you mean botanical specimens held in places such as the British Museum, with which they can compare with to check the species - but not propagate from - as they're long-since dead?

Seems to me the excitement in this news, which has been doing the rounds for at least a couple of weeks now, is that the oft-threatened single species Arabica has a similarly-tasting 'backup' in case of a global coffee rust pandemic.