Tomatoes and tomato products : nutritional, medicinal and therapeutic properties

CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPOSITION OF TOMATO PLANT AND FRUIT 1. Tomatoes: Origin, Cultivation Techniques and 3 Germplasm Resources Derly José Henriques da Silva, Flávia Barbosa Abreu, Fabiano Ricardo Brunele Caliman, Adilson Castro Antonio and Vinood B. Patel 2. Cultivar and Agricultural Management on Lycopene and 27 Vitamin C Contents in Tomato Fruits Tiequan Zhang, John Shi, YutaoWang and Sophia Jun Xue 3. Field Trials of Genetically Modified Tomato: 47 Fruit Quality and Productivity G.L. Rotino, T. Pandolfini, R. Lo Scalzo, E. Sabatini, M. Fibiani and A. Spena 4. Post-harvest Ripening of Tomato 67 María Serrano, Pedro Javier Zapata, Fabián Guillén, Domingo Martínez-Romero, Salvador Castillo and Daniel Valero 5. Tomato and Flavour 85 Christian Salles 6. Antioxidant Activity in Tomato: A Function of Genotype 111 Charanjit Kaur and H.C. Kapoor 7. Carotenoids in Tomato Plants 133 B. Stephen Inbaraj and B.H. Chen 8. Tomato Lectin 165 Willy J. Peumans and Els J.M. Van Damme 9. Presence of Zingiberene and Curcumene in Wild 193 Tomato Leaves George F. Antonious 10. The Role of Intracellular and Secreted Purple Acid 215 Phosphatases in Tomato Phosphate Nutrition Gale G. Bozzo and William C. Plaxton 11. Nutritional Characterization of Tomato Juices 235 Concepción Sánchez-Moreno, Begoña de Ancos, Lucía Plaza, Pedro Elez-Martínez and M. Pilar Cano 12. Acrylamide in Tomato Products 259 Fernando Tateo and Monica Bononi PART-2 CELLULAR AND METABOLIC EFFECTS OF TOMATO AND RELATED PRODUCTS OR COMPONENTS 13. Tomato Leaf Crude Extracts for Insects and Spider Mite 269 Control George F. Antonious and John C. Snyder 14. Bioactive Polysaccharides from Tomato 299 Giuseppina Tommonaro, Alfonso De Giulio, Giuseppe Strazzullo, Salvatore De Rosa, Barbara Nicolaus and Annarita Poli 15. Ingestion of Tomato Products and Lycopene Isomers in 317 Plasma Volker Böhm and Kati Fröhlich 16. Antioxidant Compound Studies in Different 333 Tomato Cultivars Giuseppina Tommonaro, Barbara Nicolaus, Rocco De Prisco, Alfonso De Giulio, Giuseppe Strazzullo and Annarita Poli 17. Antioxidant Activity of Fresh-cut Tomatoes: Effects 345 of Minimal Processing and Maturity Stage at Harvest Milza Moreira Lana 18. Tomato and Anticancer Properties of Saliva 377 Masahiro Toda and Kanehisa Morimoto 19. DNA Strand Breaks and Tomatoes 385 Karlis Briviba 20. Tomato Carotenoids and the IGF System in Cancer 395 Joseph Levy, Shlomo Walfisch, Yossi Walfisch, Amit Nahum, Keren Hirsch, Michael Danilenko and Yoav Sharoni 21. Tomato Paste and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia 411 Magda Edinger de Souza, Walter José Koff and Tania Weber Furlanetto 22. Tomatoes and Components as Modulators of Experimental 429 Prostate Carcinogenesis Elizabeth Miller Grainger, Kirstie Canene-Adams, John W. Erdman, Jr. and Steven K. Clinton 23. Tomato Juice, Prostate Cancer and Adenosine Deaminase 457 Enzyme Aslihan Avci and Ilker Durak 24. Effect of Tomato Juice on Prevention and Management 475 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 25. Proteomics of Tomato Seed and Pollen 501 Vipen K. Sawhney and Inder S. Sheoran 26. Gene Transfer in Tomato and Detection of Transgenic 515 Tomato Products Theodoros H. Varzakas, Dimitris Argyropoulos and 27. Assaying Vitamins and Micronutrients in Tomato 537 A.I. Olives, M.A. Martin, B. del Castillo and M.E. Torija 28. Methods for PCR and Gene Expression Studies in 585 Tomato Plants Dimitris Argyropoulos, Theodoros H. Varzakas, Charoula Psallida and Ioannis S. Arvanitoyannis 29. DNA Analysis of Tomato Seeds in Forensic Evidence 617 Henry C. Lee and Cheng-Lung Lee Index 637