The first edition of the book Tomatoes in the CABI Publishing Series Crop
Production Science in Horticulture was published in 2005. Since then, our
knowledge on tomato has greatly extended. The tomato genome has been sequenced,
making tomato even more than before a model fruit-bearing crop.
Great progress has been made in open field and greenhouse tomato production,
and in our understanding of tomato crop physiology, fruit quality and
postharvest physiology. Since 2004, almost 24,000 scientific papers have been
published with ‘tomato’ or ‘tomatoes’ in their title.