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Part 3 Diseases, pests and weeds
Part 1 Cultivation techniques
Chapter 1 Modelling crop growth and yield
in tomato cultivation
2 Review of tomato crop modelling and introduction
of the CROPGRO-Tomato model
3 Important processes and temperature sensitivities
in the CROPGRO-Tomato model
4 Integrating temperature effects and simulating growth and yield for tomato crops
5 Water and nitrogen balance in the
CROPGRO-Tomato model
6 Illustrating growth dynamics of the CROPGRO-Tomato model and evaluations against field data
7 Simulating tomato growth and yield response
under N-limited and water-limited conditions
9 Future trends in research
10 Where to look for further information
Chapter 2 Optimizing yields in tomato cultivation: maximizing tomato plant use of resources
2 Factors affecting stomatal opening in tomato plants
3 Interaction of stomatal opening factors
4 Cultivation practices to maximize tomato plant use
of resources
5 Evaluation of plant water status
6 Future trends and conclusion
Chapter 3 Improving water and nutrient management in tomato cultivation
2 Overview of tomato production systems
3 Environmental regulations affecting tomato production in the United States
4 Changing approaches to water and nutrient management: from optimizing production
to optimizing input efficiency
5 Irrigation management systems for tomato production
6 Optimizing irrigation volumes and scheduling
7 Fertilization in tomato production: introduction
and soil sampling
8 Nutrient sources for tomato production
9 Optimizing nitrogen (N) rates
10 Fertilizer recommendations, nutrient uptake and leaching
11 Implications of water and fertilizer use for food safety
12 Teaching water and nutrient management to tomato producers
13 Future trends and conclusion
14 Where to look for further information
Chapter 4 Organic greenhouse tomato production
2 Principles and standards of organic greenhouse cultivation
3 Expansion of organic protected tomato cultivation around the world
4 Types of greenhouses used for organic tomato cultivation around the world
5 Productivity and profitability of organic greenhouse tomato production
6 Cultivar and rootstock selection and seedling production
7 Organic greenhouse production systems
8 Fertilisation management
11 Health and nutritive value
12 Environmental impact of organic greenhouse tomatoes
13 Future trends and conclusion
14 Where to look for further information
Part 2 Plant physiology and breeding
Chapter 5 Understanding and improving water-use efficiency and drought resistance in tomato
2 Tomato as a genetic model in plant biology
3 Patterns in tomato plant development
4 Water relations in tomato
5 Natural genetic variation in tomato
6 Case study: Solanum pennellii as a source
of drought-resistance
7 Plant development and water relations
8 Future trends and conclusion
9 Where to look for further information
Chapter 6 Ensuring the genetic diversity of tomato
1 Introduction: key issues relating to the genetic diversity of tomatoes
2 Taxonomy and mating system of tomato and
its wild relatives
3 Conservation of tomato genetic resources worldwide
4 Policies affecting access to plant genetic resources
5 Issues affecting the exchange and use of plant genetic resources
6 Phytosanitary requirements for the exchange
of plant genetic resources
7 Phytosanitary measures in practice: the case
of solanaceous viroids
8 Ways to strengthen sharing of crop genetic resources
9 Summary and future trends
10 Where to look for further information
Chapter 7 Tomato plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress
2 Tomato responses to biotic stress
3 Tomato responses to abiotic stresses
4 Stress signalling and stress regulatory networks
6 Where to look for further information
Chapter 8 Developments in tomato breeding: conventional and biotechnology tools
2 Tomato domestication and breeding
3 Conventional tools in tomato introgression breeding
4 Mutagenesis and tomato mutant libraries
6 Where to look for further information
Chapter 9 Advances in marker-assisted breeding of tomatoes
3 Populations for mapping
4 Strategies for trait association and GWAS
5 Mapping targeted traits in tomato
7 MAS progress in tomato breeding
8 Current developments in tomato breeding
9 Conclusions and future trends
10 Where to look for further information
Chapter 10 Genetic engineering of tomato to improve nutritional quality, resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses, and for non-food applications
2 History of tomato transformation and challenges
3 Genetic engineering of tomato for fruit quality and shelf life
4 Abiotic stress tolerance
5 Biotic stress tolerance
6 Tomato as a model system for biopharming
7 Future trends and conclusion
8 Where to look for further information
Chapter 11 Developing tomato varieties with improved flavour
2 Genetic diversity of tomato flavour and consumer expectations
3 Genes and quantitative trait loci
affecting flavour
5 New approaches to tomato flavour diversity and genetic control
6 From MAS to genomic selection for flavour breeding
7 Interactions genotype by environment: a tool for breeding good tomatoes
10 Where to look for further information
Chapter 12 Understanding and improving the shelf life of tomatoes
2 Natural variability
4 Molecular determinants
5 Role of cell wall proteins
6 Role of epidermal waxes
8 Controlling pathogen-based impairments
10 Post-harvest chemical application
11 Post-harvest management
12 Conclusion and future trends
13 Where to look for further information
Part 3 Diseases, pests and weeds
Chapter 13 Insect-transmitted viral diseases infecting tomato crops
2 Viruses transmitted by aphids
3 Transmission by thrips: tomato spotted wilt virus
4 Transmission of Begomoviruses by the tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)
5 Transmission of RNA viruses by whiteflies
6 Viruses spread by leafhoppers
7 Genetics tools to control viral infestation of tomatoes
8 Future trends and conclusion
9 Where to look for further information
Chapter 14 Genetic resistance to viruses in tomato
2 Case study 1: Resistance to TYLCV
3 Case Study 2: Resistance to Tobamoviruses
4 Case study 3: Resistance to TSWV
5 Summary and future trends
7 Where to look for further information
Chapter 15 Bio-ecology of major insect and mite pests of tomato crops in the tropics
6 South American tomato leaf miner
7 Tomato fruit borer
11 Where to look for further information
Chapter 16 Integrated pest management in tomato cultivation
2 Integrated pest management (IPM): overview
3 IPM techniques before the growing season
4 IPM techniques during the growing season
5 Technologies targeting pests that can be used before and during the growing season
6 IPM techniques after the growing season
7 Diagnostics and monitoring for diseases
8 Conclusion and future trends
Chapter 17 Developing disease-resistant tomato varieties
2 Bacterial disease resistance breeding
3 Fungal disease resistance breeding
4 Virus disease resistance breeding
5 Nematode resistance breeding
6 Genetic engineering for developing disease-resistant tomatoes
7 Where to look for further information
8 Future trends and conclusion
Chapter 18 Integrated weed management in tomato cultivation
2 Weed communities: the target
3 The effect of weed–crop interference
4 Integrated weed management (IWM)
5 Preventative measures and cultural control: crop rotation and cover crops
6 Cultural control: stale seedbed preparation, cultivar selection, planting, irrigation and fertilization
7 Decision making: weed competition thresholds
8 Direct weed control methods: mulches, solarization, thermal and mechanical methods and hand weeding
9 Chemical weed control
11 Summary and future trends
12 Where to look for further information
Achieving sustainable cultivation of tomatoes
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