Tomatoes and Tomato Products: Nutritional, Medicinal and Therapeutic Properties Book

Part 1: Characterization and Composition of Tomato Plant and Fruit: Tomato: Origin, Cultivation Techniques and Germplasm Resources; Cultivar and Agricultural Management on Lycopene and Vitamin C Contents in Tomato Fruits; Field Trials of Genetically Modified Tomato: Fruit Quality and Productivity; Post-harvest Ripening of Tomato; Tomato and Flavour; Antioxidant Activity in Tomato: A Function of Genotype; Carotenoids in Tomato Plants; Tomato Lectin; Presence of Zingiberene and Curcumene in Wild Tomato Leaves; The Role of Intracellular and Secreted Purple Acid Phosphatases in Tomato Phosphate Nutrition; Nutritional Characterization of Tomato Juices; Acrylamide in Tomato Products�Part 2: Cellular and Metabolic Effects of Tomato and Related Products or Components: Tomato Leaf Crude Extracts for Insects and Spider Mite Control; Bioactive Polysaccharides from Tomato; Ingestion of Tomato Products and Lycopene Isomers in Plasma; Comparative Studies of Antioxidant Compounds in Different Tomato Cultivars; Antioxidant Activity of Fresh-cut Tomatoes: Effects of Minimal Processing and Maturity Stage at Harvest; Tomato and Anticancer Properties of Saliva; DNA Strand Breaks and Tomatoes; Tomato Carotenoids and the IGF System in Cancer; Consumption of Tomato Paste and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia; Tomatoes and Components as Modulators of Experimental Prostate Carcinogenesis; Tomato Juice, Prostate Cancer and Adenosine Deaminase Enzyme; 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�Part 3: Analysis and Methods: Proteomics of Tomato Seed and Pollen; Gene Transfer in Tomato and Detection of Transgenic Tomato Products; Assaying Vitamins and Micronutrients in Tomato; Methods for PCR and Gene Expression Studies in Tomato Plants; DNA Analysis of Tomato Seeds in Forensic Evidence