Hydroponic Culture of ‘Micro-Tom’ Tomato

Abstract

We use ‘Micro-Tom’ to study tomato fruit ripening and development mechanisms. ‘Micro-Tom’ is suitable for cultivation and experiments due to its small size of 10 to 20 cm in height and short life cycle of 3 months. There is also an abundance of publically available information on ‘Micro-Tom’ including EST, full-length cDNA clones and transcriptome data. ‘Micro-Tom’ plants are grown in hydroponic culture under fluorescents using Arabidopsis cultural shelves in greenhouses or plant rooms to get data with reproducibility for transcriptome and proteome analyses.