ABSTRACT
The Tomato Genome Sequencing Project has a quite long and interesting history, during the course of which tomato even changed its scientifi c name. The fi rst grants to sequence the tomato genome were submitted to funding agencies in the early 2000s, but the project gained traction only after a meeting in 2003 in Washington, DC, where over a hundred tomato researchers from all over the world gathered to push for an international
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