A Decade of Tomato Transcriptomics: Status and Perspectives

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most indispensable vegetable which is cultivated and consumed throughout the world. Tomato is preferred raw as salad and in the processed form such as ketchup, paste, soup, puree etc. by all the age groups. Tomato is a self-pollinated crop in which controlled cross pollination is easily implemented. It belongs to the family Solanaceae, bears 2n=2x=24 chromosome number and berry type fruit (Anonymous, 2014, Table 1). A substantial amount of synteny is observed between the genomes of cultivated and wild tomato species (Chetelat and Ji, 2007). Tomato includes more than thirteen interfertile species some of which may interbreed International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 3 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com