Contents
Preface
Editorial Overview
Tomato genomics by JSOL
Hiroshi Ezura, Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi. . . . . . . 3 [PDF]
Genome sequencing
Tomato genome sequencing: deciphering the euchromatin region of the chromosome 8
Erika Asamizu. . . . . . . 5 [PDF]
Solanaceae genomics: Current status of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) genome sequencing and its application to pepper (Capsicum spp.) genome research
Sanghyeob Lee, Sung Hwan Jo, Doil Choi. . . . . . . 11 [PDF]
Collection of ESTs and building databases for the tomato genomics
Genomic Databases for Tomato
Kentaro Yano, Koh Aoki, Daisuke Shibata. . . . . . . 17 [PDF]
The French contribution to the multinational Solanaceae Genomics Project as integrated part of the European effort
C. Delalande, F. Regad, M. Zouine, P. Frasse, A. Latche, J.C. Pech, M. Bouzayen. . . . . . . 27 [PDF]
Construction of extensive databases of phenotypic information for mutagenized tomato populations
Ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis of Solanum lycopersicum cv. Micro-Tom for large-scale mutant screens
Shin Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi, Koh Aoki, Yasutaka Kubo, Hitoshi Mori, Shunsuke Imanishi, Yukiko Yamazaki, Daisuke Shibata, Hiroshi Ezura. . . . . . . 33 [PDF]
Generation of gamma irradiation-induced mutant lines of the miniature tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cultivar Micro-Tom
Chiaki Matsukura, Isao Yamaguchi, Mami Inamura, Yusuke Ban, Yoshie Kobayashi, Yong-gen Yin, Takeshi Saito, Chikara Kuwata, Shunsuke Imanishi, Shigeo Nishimura. . . . . . . 39 [PDF]
Metabolomics
The metabolic shifts underlying tomato fruit development
Fernando Carrari, Ramon Asis, Alisdair R. Fernie. . . . . . . 45 [PDF]
Polyamines as anabolic growth regulators revealed by transcriptome analysis and metabolite profiles of tomato fruits engineered to accumulate spermidine and spermine
Alka Srivastava, Sang Ho Chung, Tahira Fatima, Tatsiana Datsenka, Avtar K. Handa, Autar K. Mattoo. . . . . . . 57 [PDF]
Signal transduction and development
The transition to flowering in tomato
Alon Samach, Hamutal Lotan. . . . . . . 71 [PDF]
Day-neutral response of photoperiodic flowering in tomatoes: possible implications based on recent molecular genetics of Arabidopsis and rice
Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi, Kanae Niinuma, Riichiro Yoshida. . . . . . . 83 [PDF]
Dance of plants with circadian clock
Kanae Niinuma, Mayu Nakagawa, Martin Calvino, Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi. . . . . . . 87 [PDF]
Effects of the removal of cotyledons on endogenous gibberellin levels in hypocotyls of young cucumber and tomato seedlings
Masashi Asahina, Yukika Yamauchi, Atsushi Hanada, Yuji Kamiya, Hiroshi Kamada, Shinobu Satoh, Shinjiro Yamaguchi. . . . . . . 99 [PDF]
Molecular and genetic characterization of transgenic tomato expressing 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase
Toshikazu Omura, Shin Watanabe, Yoko Iijima, Koh Aoki, Daisuke Shibata, Hiroshi Ezura. . . . . . . 107 [PDF]
Polyamines and their ability to provide environmental stress tolerance to plants
Ji-Hong Liu, Hiroyasu Kitashiba, Jing Wang, Yusuke Ban, Takaya Moriguchi. . . . . . . 117 [PDF]
Transporters in fruit vacuoles
Katsuhiro Shiratake, Enrico Martinoia. . . . . . . 127 [PDF]
Tomato as a model plant for plant-pathogen interactions
Tsutomu Arie, Hideki Takahashi, Motoichiro Kodama, Tohru Teraoka. . . . . . . 135 [PDF]
Global regulation of pathogenicity mechanism of Ralstonia solanacearum
Yasufumi Hikichi, Takeshi Yoshimochi, Shin-taro Tsujimoto, Rena Shinohara, Kazuhiro Nakaho, Ayami Kanda, Akinori Kiba, Kouhei Ohnishi. . . . . . . 149 [PDF]