ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                               TGC REPORT 52, 2002 ________________________________________________________________________ From the editor Regards to the TGC membership from your new editor! First, I would like to give credit for this report to Ms. Gail Cameron Somodi who has done a large part of the work. Gail (MS in Plant Pathology) has worked with me for more years than she  would  care  to  count  in  our  bacterial  resistance  program,  and  also  has superior editorial and organizational skills. If she was not working for me last year I may well have not taken on the editorship. I want to also thank former managing editor  Theresa  Fulton.  I  cannot  think  of  anyone  else  I  would  rather  take  over from.  She  had  things  in  good  order  to  begin  with,  and  every  time  we  had  a question she was quick to respond. Thanks also to all the contributors of reports for  volume  52  because  without  you  none  of  this  is  possible.  Finally,  thanks  for everyone’s  patience  with  us  during  the  transition.  Next  year  should  be  more routine. The TGC Website has moved and there have been some changes in it. We will try to update it periodically to keep you abreast of current information and will be adding links to other relevant tomato genetics addresses. If you have any links to suggest,  send  me  an  email.  Many  of  the  old  TGC  issues  are  available  at  the website thanks to the scanning of Theresa Fulton, Steve Tanksley, and Co. We hope to keep adding more of them until all are available. The policy will be to wait a year to put the latest issue on-line, so volume 52 will be on-line in September, 2003. The new web address is: http://gcrec.ifas.ufl.edu/tgc There are no longer Associate Editors. I have been trying to set up a Gene List Committee and the people who have agreed to serve are listed below. The main function  of  this  committee  will  be  to  approve  the  naming  and  symbols  of  new genes  for  integration  into  the  tomato  gene  list.    If  you  are  publishing  a  paper where you have evidence for a new gene, please bring the paper to the attention of a committee member and the committee will officially evaluate your evidence and if approved, it will be listed in the next TGC report. You can also name genes directly  in  a  TGC  paper,  of  course,  and  the  committee  will  consider  them  for approval.   Gene List Committee: Jay Scott, University of Florida, Bradenton, FL USA Roger Chetelat, TGRC, UC Davis, Davis, CA USA Mathilde Causse, INRA, Montfavet Cedex, France Pim Lindhout, Wageningen Agricultural Univ., Wageningen,   The Netherlands Mikel Stevens, BYU, Provo UT, USA 7

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