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2000 CGC Business Meeting
Timothy J Ng, CGC Chair
University of Maryland, USA
The 24th annual CGC Business
Meeting was held on 23 July 2000
at the Coronado Springs Hotel in
Orlando, Florida, in conjunction
with the 2000 International
Conference of the American
Society for Horticultural Science
(ASHS). Seventeen members and
other interested individuals
attended.
Comments…………………………….
After introductions around the
room, Tim Ng provided a brief
summary of the history of the CGC
Reports, as well as a financial
status update. He said he was
starting to consider CGC Report
No. 23 as “haunted,” in that
strange events were combining to
delay its publication, but that it
would be completed and printed by
August 2000. Part of the delay
was due to working out the
logistics of including the
proceedings from the 1 st
International Oil Pumpkin
From the CGC Coordinating Committee: The Call for Papers for
the 2002 Report (CGC Report No. 25) will be mailed in October
2001. Papers should be submitted to the respective Coordinating
Committee members by 31 March 2002, although late submissions
may be considered if received prior to our processing deadline. The
Report will be published by July 2002. As always, we are eager to
hear from CGC members regarding our current activities and future
direction of CGC.
From the CGC Gene List Committee: Lists of known genes for the
Cucurbitaceae have been published previously in HortScience and in
reports of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative. CGC is currently
publishing complete lists of known genes for cucumber (Cucumis
sativus), melon (Cucumis melo), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and
Cucurbita spp. on a rotating basis.
It is hoped that scientists will consult these lists as well as the rules of
gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae before selecting a gene
name and symbol. Thus, inadvertent duplication of gene names and
symbols will be prevented. The rules of gene nomenclature
(published in each CGC Report) were adopted in order to provide
guidelines for the naming and symbolizing of genes previously
reported and those which will be reported in the future. Scientists are
urged to contact members of the Gene List Committee regarding
questions in interpreting the nomenclature rules and in naming and
symbolizing new genes.
From the CGC Gene Curators: CGC has appointed curators for the
four major cultivated crops: cucumber, melon, watermelon and
Cucurbita spp. Curators are responsible for collecting, maintaining,
and distributing upon request stocks of know marker genes. CGC
members are requested to forward samples of currently held gene
stocks to the respective Curator.
Conference, which was held in
Austria in 1999.
The Call for Papers for CGC 24
(2001) is scheduled for mailing in
October 2000, with a deadline date
of 28 February 2001. As has been
the practice in recent years,
manuscripts submitted after the
deadline date may still be
considered for inclusion in the
Report -- subject to the time
constraints of the Coordinating
Committee members and the
Chair.
Tim next indicated that the CGC
website was proceeding slowly but
surely. A recent addition to the
web CGC Reports page was the
indication of the availability of
back issues and also whether a
given report is available on the
web.
Jim McCreight provided a brief
report on the recently completed
Cucurbitaceae 2000 conference in
Israel, and also mentioned that the
2nd ISHS International
Conference on Cucurbits was
scheduled for Japan sometime in
2001. However, information was
scarce on the latter conference and
no one present at the CGC meeting
had attended the 1st ISHS Cucurbit
conference, so the Chair agreed to
track down more information on
the Japanese meeting.
Because of increasing publication
and postage costs, it was
announced that membership rates
would increase to $20 per
biennium (surface rate) beginning
in 2002. The increase would be
phased in for individuals renewing
in 2001. However, thanks to an
arrangement with the University of
Maryland, CGC members would
now be allowed to charge their
membership to their credit card;