From the editor Greetings to the TGC membership from your not - so - new editor . We have some experience now and getting this issue out has been easier for Gail Somodi (who does most the work) and me than was the last issue . I invite you to submit your recent research results for volume 54 (2004) . TGC Reports are only as good as the information they contain . Again I remind you to submit a report if you are naming a new gene so we can get it approved and on the official tomato gene list . We hope to get a new linkage map published in next year’s volume as there has not been such a list in the TGC since 1987 . One of our goals is to get all back volumes of the Reports of the Tomato Genetics Cooperative on our website http://gcrec . ifas . ufl . edu/tgc and in a keyword searchable format . Many issues are now available on line, some are searchable by keyword and some are not . Volume 52 from last year is now on line . It will be our policy to put volumes on line one year after they are published . During the year check the website for updates . We are open to any suggestions from you as to how we can improve . Managing Editor: Jay W . Scott Gulf Coast Research & Education Center 5007 60 th Street East Bradenton, FL 34203 941 - 751 - 7636 ext . 241 e - mail: jwsc@ifas . ufl . edu First International Symposium on Tomato Disease This meeting will take place from June 21 - 24, 2004 in Orlando, Florida at the Grosvenor Resort at Walt Disney World . To find out more about the conference and receive meeting announcements see the website: 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 2004 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 .   The GRIN web site http://www . ars - grin . gov/npgs/cgclist . html hosts an updated list of tomato germplasm evaluation priorities .   Proposals will be reviewed by the Tomato Crop Germplasm Committee (CGC) and applicable ad hoc reviewers and ranked in priority order for funding .   All proposals and CGC prioritization are forwarded to USDA for a final decision on funding .   Multiple year projects

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