What do you get when you combine UC Davis alumni, tomato seeds, and citizen science? That would be Project GASP (“Germ”-ination Alumni Science Project). I didn't come up with the name, I swear. This project, sponsored and paid for by the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis, is interested in looking at the heritability of the tomato seed microbiome. There is a large body of research on the importance of the microbiome for the health and productivity of plants in agriculture. There are whole companies dedicated to as
