The 2009 National Sweetpotato Collaborators Group (NSCG) conference will be held on Saturday, January 31 and Sunday, February 1, 2009 in conjunction with the SAAS/SR-ASHS conference (2/1/09 to 2/3/09) in Atlanta, GA. The NSCG meeting venue will be at The Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree St., N.W. Atlanta, GA. [Phone now for reservations: (404) 659-1400 • Fax: (404) 589-7424] Be sure to ask for the SAAS/SR-ASHS rates of $144/night.

Plans are underway (but not yet finalized) for a pre-conference field trip on Friday, January 30, 2009. Please check the NSCG web site for the most up-to-date developments. www.sweetpotatoes.org Jack Osman, Health Science Department at Towson University, Towson, Maryland is the incoming chair responsible for coordinating the conference. (email: or ; Phone: 717-993-3081) Mike Jackson, USDA-ARS, Charleston, SC is chair elect for 2010..

The 2008 meeting was held at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa , Asheville , NC, in conjunction with the US Sweetpotato Council meeting (January 20-22). Zvezdana VanEsbroeck, NCSU chaired the 2008 meeting.

Note to presenters: abstracts submitted for publication in HortScience were forwarded to SR-ASHS on 15 Feb 08. The SR-ASHS abstracts are usually published in the fall issue of HortScience.