Description: This book reviews key developments in tomato breeding, including developing improved varieties with desirable traits such as drought or pest resistance. It also discusses ways of improving cultivation techniques as well as pests, diseases and their control.
Brief description: Dr Autar Mattoo is Research Leader of the Vegetable Laboratory at the USDA's Henry A. Wallace Research Center, USA is internationally-renowned for his research on tomato physiology.
Review Quotes:
"Authors have made remarkable efforts to balance background with basic-applied research findings enhancing the understanding of the various issues and techniques involved in tomato production, physiology, breeding and genetics...It is a valuable resource of modern knowledge for research academics and graduate students, and also applicable to consultants and managers involved in tomato R&D, such as those in seed and chemical companies."
Prof. Daniel Leskovar in Chronica Horticulturae