ANNOUNCEMENTS TGC REPORT 52, 2002
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Managing Editor:
Jay W. Scott
Gulf Coast Research & Education Center
5007 60th Street East
Bradenton, FL 34203
941-751-7636 ext. 241
e-mail: jwsc@ifas.ufl.edu
Tomato Breeders Roundtable meeting
The next meeting will be held in Park City, Utah, USA from 27-30 April, 2003. For
information about the meeting contact:
Mikel R. Stevens
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
287 WIDB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT, 84602
801-378-4032
fax 801-378-2203
e-mail: mikel_stevens@byu.edu
First International Symposium on Tomato Diseases
This meeting will take place from 27-31 October, 2003 at Kusadasi, Turkey. To
find out more about the conference and receive meeting announcements see the
website below:
http://plantdoctor.ifas.ufl.edu/istd.html
Announcement: USDA Funding for Tomato Germplasm Evaluation
Funding will again be available from the USDA, ARS in FY 2003 for evaluation of
tomato germplasm. Evaluation funding will be used on germplasm maintained in
or destined for the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Relevant NPGS
germplasm includes the tomato collection maintained by USDA’s Plant Genetic
Resources Unit in Geneva, New York and the collection at the University of
California, C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, Davis, California.
Proposal guidelines are noted below.
All proposals will be evaluated on the need for evaluation data, national and/or
regional interest in the problem, scientific soundness and feasibility of the
proposal, the likelihood of success, germplasm to be screened, and the likelihood
that data will be entered into NPGS databases and freely shared with the user
community. Proposals will be reviewed by the Tomato Crop Germplasm
Committee (CGC) and applicable ad hoc reviewers and ranked in priority order
for funding. Funding for successful proposals has ranged from $5,000 to
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