L'objectif de cette expertise (commandée par le ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche à l'Inra) est d'éclairer les pouvoirs publics sur les actions à mener pour répondre au double objectif de soutien économique aux filières de production et de protection de la santé publique. À partir des recherches et des publications scientifiques, les experts ont analysé les questions suivantes : les fondements scientifiques des recommandations nutritionnelles ; les caractéristiques nutritionnelles ...

Fruit ripening is an important aspect of fruit production. The timing of it affects supply chains and buying behaviour, and for consumers ripeness not only affects perceptions of health but has nutritional effects too. Ripeness is closely related to spoilage which has a major financial impact on agricultural industries. Currently there are fast moving developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this up-to-date monograph seeks to draw together the disparate resear...

This book describes the strategy used for sequencing, assembling and annotating the tomato genome and presents the main characteristics of this sequence with a special focus on repeated sequences and the ancestral polyploidy events. It also includes the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a major crop plant as well as a model for fruit development, and the availability of the genome sequence has completely changed the paradigm of the species’ ge...