Dear Fruit and Nut Researchers,

As organizer to the Fruit and Nut Workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XVII meeting, I am inviting you to e-mail me a title and a description for an oral talk that you would like to present at this workshop on Saturday, January 10th, 2009. I would like to ensure that new research information about the widest possible number of fruits and nuts are presented at this workshop and not status reports that can be presented as posters.

Please e-mail me a possible title and a short paragraph describing your presentation by Wednesday, September 24th. Make sure to include: Fruit and Nut Workshop in the subject line.

I will e-mail invitations on Friday, September 26th. The deadline for the abstracts is one week later, on Friday, October 3rd.

Feel free to e-mail this request to anyone you would think would be interested.

Your reply will be instrumental to the success of this workshop.

Best regards,

Nahla Bassil

Plant Geneticist

USDA-ARS, NCGR

33447 Peoria Rd.

Corvallis, OR 97333-2521

Tel: (541) 738-4214

Fax: (541) 738-4205

bassiln@hort.oregonstate.edu

nahla.bassil@ars.usda.gov

Dorrie Main, PhD Associate Professor of Bioinformatics Dept of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Washington State University 45 Johnson Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6414 Email: dorrie@wsu.edu Tel: (509) 335 2774 Fax: (509) 335 8690 URL: www.bioinfo.wsu.edu http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/