Tomatoes and Tomato Products
Nutritional, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties
Editors
Victor R. Preedy: Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College, London, UK
Ronald R. Watson: School of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA

ISBN 978-1-57808-534-7/ 2008/ 665 pages, hc/ US $ 139.95


Gaining an insight into the tomato plant, from its genetics to its role in the diet is one of the preludes to understanding public health nutrition in its broadest sense and the authors in Tomatoes and Tomato Products: Nutritional, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties have addressed this.

The contributors to this book are authors of international and national standing, leaders in the field and trendsetters. The book covers emerging fields of science and important discoveries relating to tomatoes and related products. This represents a one-stop shopping of material related to tomatoes. This book will be essential reading for plant scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacologists, health care professionals and research scientists.

Contents

Part 1: Characterization and Composition of Tomato Plant and Fruit
- Tomato: Origin, Cultivation Techniques and Germplasm Resources: Derly José Henriques da Silva, Flávia Barbosa Abreu, Fabiano Ricardo Brunele Caliman, Adilson Castro Antonio and V.B. Patel
- Cultivar and Agricultural Management on Lycopene and Vitamin C Contents in Tomato Fruits: Tiequan Zhang, John Shi, Yutao Wang and Sophia Jun Xue
- Field Trials of Genetically Modified Tomato: Fruit Quality and Productivity: G.L. Rotino, T. Pandolfini, R. Lo Scalzo, E. Sabatini, M. Fibiani and A. Spena
- Post-harvest Ripening of Tomato: María Serrano, Pedro Javier Zapata, Fabián Guillén, Domingo Martínez-Romero, Salvador Castillo and Daniel Valero
- Tomato and Flavour: Christian Salles
- Antioxidant Activity in Tomato: A Function of Genotype: C. Kaur and H.C. Kapoor
- Carotenoids in Tomato Plants: B. Stephen Inbaraj and B.H. Chen
- Tomato Lectin: Willy J. Peumans and Els J.M. Van Damme
- Presence of Zingiberene and Curcumene in Wild Tomato Leaves: George F. Antonious
- The Role of Intracellular and Secreted Purple Acid Phosphatases in Tomato Phosphate Nutrition: Gale G. Bozzo and William C. Plaxton
- Nutritional Characterization of Tomato Juices: Concepción Sánchez-Moreno, Begoña de Ancos, Lucía Plaza, Pedro Elez-Martínez and M. Pilar Cano
- Acrylamide in Tomato Products: Fernando Tateo and Monica Bononi

Part 2: Cellular and Metabolic Effects of Tomato and Related Products or Components
- Tomato Leaf Crude Extracts for Insects and Spider Mite Control: George F. Antonious and John C. Snyder
- Bioactive Polysaccharides from Tomato: Giuseppina Tommonaro, Alfonso de Giulio, Giuseppe Strazzullo, Salvatore de Rosa, Barbara Nicolaus and Annarita Poli
- Ingestion of Tomato Products and Lycopene Isomers in Plasma: Volker Böhm and Kati Fröhlich
- Comparative Studies of Antioxidant Compounds in Different Tomato Cultivars: Giuseppina Tommonaro, Barbara Nicolaus, Rocco de Prisco, Alfonso de Giulio, Giuseppe Strazzullo and Annarita Poli
- Antioxidant Activity of Fresh-cut Tomatoes: Effects of Minimal Processing and Maturity Stage at Harvest: Milza Moreira Lana
- Tomato and Anticancer Properties of Saliva: Masahiro Toda and Kanehisa Morimoto
- DNA Strand Breaks and Tomatoes: Karlis Briviba
- Tomato Carotenoids and the IGF System in Cancer: Josephy Levy, Shlomo Walfisch, Yossi Walfisch, Amit Nahum, Keren Hirsch, Michael Danilenko and Yoav Sharoni
- Consumption of Tomato Paste and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia: Magda Edinger de Souza, Walter José Koff and Tania Weber Furlanetto
- Tomatoes and Components as Modulators of Experimental Prostate Carcinogenesis: Elizabeth Miller Grainger, Kirstie Canene-Adams, John W. Erdman, Jr. and Steven K. Clinton
- Tomato Juice, Prostate Cancer and Adenosine Deaminase Enzyme: Aslhan Avci and Ilker Durak
- Effect of Tomato Juice on Prevention and Management of Lung Diseases: Cigarette Smoke-induced Emphysema in the Senescence-accelerated Mouse and Bronchial Asthma in Human: Kuniaki Seyama, Naoaki Tamura, Takahiro Inakuma and Koichi Aizawa

Part 3: Analysis and Methods
- Proteomics of Tomato Seed and Pollen: V.K. Sawhney and I.S. Sheoran
- Gene Transfer in Tomato and Detection of Transgenic Tomato Products: Theodoros H. Varzakas,
Dimitris Argyropoulos and Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis
- Assaying Vitamins and Micronutrients in Tomato: A.I. Olives, M.A. Martin, B. del Castillo and M.E. Torija
- Methods for PCR and Gene Expression Studies in Tomato Plants: Dimitris Argyropoulos, Theodoros H. Varzakas and Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis
- DNA Analysis of Tomato Seeds in Forensic Evidence: Henry C. Lee and Cheng-Lung Lee

  
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