Abstract
Micro-Tom tomato cultivar is particularly adapted to the development of genomic approaches in tomato. Here, we describe the culture of this plant in greenhouse, including climate regulation, seed sowing and watering, vegetative development, plant maintenance, including treatment of phytosanitary problems, and reproductive development.
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Rothan, C., Just, D., Fernandez, L., Atienza, I., Ballias, P., Lemaire-Chamley, M. (2016). Culture of the Tomato Micro-Tom Cultivar in Greenhouse. In: Botella, J., Botella, M. (eds) Plant Signal Transduction. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1363. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3115-6_6
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