A message from the Managing Editor, J. W. Scott, Ph.D.:
I have been organizing a Gene List Committee and the people listed below have agreed to serve on this committee. Roger Chetelat has agreed to serve as chair of the committee. Our primary function will be to approve the naming and nomenclature of new tomato genes so they can be put on the tomato gene list. This committee should be operative by 2003. For now it is suggested that if you want to name a new gene, document it in a TGC report. This does not preclude publication in a refereed journal. Otherwise alert a member of the committee about a paper you've written so we are sure not to miss the gene(s) you are naming. This includes papers written over the last several years if you don't see your gene(s) listed on official gene lists. Publish these "older" genes in the next TGC too. The present plan is to publish a new gene list and map in TGC 54. Members of the Tomato Gene List Committee are:
Mathilde Causse, Station d'Amelioration des Plantes Maraicheres, BP94, 84143 Montfavet Cedex, FRANCE
Roger Chetelat, University of California, Department of Vegetable Crops, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 USA e-mail: chetelat@vegmail.ucdavis.edu
Pim Lindhout, Wageningen Agricultural University, Postbus 386, 6700 AJ, Wageningen, THE NETHERLANDS e-mail: pim.lindhout@pv.dpw.wau.nl
Mikel Stevens, Brigham Young University, 275 Widtsoe Bldg. P.O. Box 25183, Provo, UT 84602 USA e-mail: mikel_stevens@byu.edu
