JOURNAL

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]