From the editor
Greetings to the TGC membership from your veteran editor and his highly capable staff. Gail Somodi
continues to do most of the work keeping the TGC operation organized. John Petti is our webmaster who
has been very busy with one of our major goals, getting all the reports on the web and searchable by
keyword using the Google search engine. Our policy will be to have all reports available in electronic
format with the exception of the latest report, it will not appear online until one year after the publication
date. If you have not visited the website lately you may want to check it out as it is changing frequently
(http://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/tgc). Let us know (see my e-mail address below) of any problems you encounter
so we can get them fixed. There is a lot of interesting information in the reports and we hope to make this
information easy to extract. Since this project is very labor intensive TGC funds are being used to
accomplish this.
One other major change is taking place and that is that our research center is scheduled to move in
January 2005. My email (jwsc@ifas.ufl.edu) and the TGC website will not be affected but our mailing
address will change:
From:
To:
2004 address
2005 address
Jay W. Scott
Jay W. Scott
Gulf Coast Research & Education Center
Gulf Coast Research & Education Center
5007 60th Street East
14625 Balm Road
Bradenton, FL 34203
Wimauma, FL 33598
USA
USA
941-751-7636 ext. 241
I hope I can get my office cleaned out by January! I’m going to miss the leaky roof and some other things
but our ability to facilitate the Tomato Genetics Cooperative should not be affected. Keep the research
reports and varietal pedigrees coming in 2005!
Oscar Pearson, one of the great vegetable breeders of the 20th century, died this year. You will find his
obituary on pages 84 and 85. Take a moment to find out about one set of shoulders that modern day
tomato breeders stand upon. His son, Dr. Robert Pearson, wrote me that he was unable to evaluate his
father’s plant breeding accomplishments but he said, “I can assure you that his genetic and moral
contributions to the human gene pool are important to us, his children.”
Jay W. Scott
Managing Editor
No navigation control above? Click here!