How is it possible to have a Liet Kynes Ghola in "Hunters of Dune," based on his death in the original book?

Question

In reading Hunters of Dune, I realized that the Liet Kynes Ghola's cells should have been very hard to come by. Kynes dies in the desert in the first book, and I can't imagine there were any Tleilaxu around to harvest cells from the body as Kynes dies in an explosion of CO₂ surfacing in the desert:

Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous “blow” with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface.

(p.446 of Dune, Kindle version).

So, I was wondering how the Tleilaxu masters would have gotten cells from Kynes to be stored and uncovered in Hunters of Dune? Is this a plot hole? Or is it to be assumed that Kynes' cells were merely harvested earlier when he was alive, sort of like with Miles Teg?

Answer 1

We know from Chapterhouse: Dune that the Tleilaxu have made a habit of collecting cells from important personages that may prove useful to them as slaves.

Each Master had carried this resource—a nullentropy capsule preserving the seed cells of a multitude: fellow Masters of the central kehl, Face Dancers, technical specialists and others he knew would be attractive to the women of Shaitan . . . and to many weakling powindah! Paul Atreides and his beloved Chani were there. (Oh what that had cost in searching garments of the dead for random cells!) The original Duncan Idaho was there with other Atreides minions—the Mentat Thufir Hawat, Gurney Halleck, the Fremen Naib Stilgar . . . enough potential servants and slaves to people a Tleilaxu universe.

Kynes is a VIP and certainly worthy of the attention of the Tleilaxu. It's possible that the spice blow was searched for any scrap of Kynes' clothing, or more likely just that cells were taken from him at an earlier stage by one of their operatives.