1. Basic information about tomatoes and the tomato group / Ana Caicedo and Iris Peralta -- 2. Classical genetics and traditional breeding / John W. Scott. [et al.] -- 3. Diversity within cultivated tomato / Esther van der Knaap, Claire Anderson and Gustavo Rodriguez -- 4. Molecular markers, genetic maps and association studies in tomato / Martin W. Ganal -- 5. Mapping and tagging of simply inherited traits / Ilan Levin and Arthur A. Schaffer -- 6. Molecular mapping of complex traits in tomato / Silvana Grandillo, Pasquale Termolino and Esther van der Knaap -- 7. Molecular breeding / Emidio Sabatini. [et al.] -- 8. Positional cloning strategies in tomato / Cornelius S. Barry -- 9. Structural genomics : studying variation in gene sequences / Allen E. van Deynze, Theresa Hill and Hamid Ashraft -- 10. The tomato genome sequencing project / Lukas A. Mueller -- 11. Comparative genome sequencing of tomato and potato : methods and analysis / Sanwen Huang and Zhong-hua Zhang -- 12. Developments in tomato transcriptomics / Antonio J. Matas. [et al.] -- 13. Proteomics and metabolomics / Mireille Faurobert, Yoko Iijima and Koh Aoki -- 14. Role of bioinformatics as a tool in tomato research / Catherine M. Ronning.