Tomato: A Model Plant to Study Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a very important vegetable plant in the worldwide because of its importance as food, quality of fruit, improves productivity, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Tomato has been extensively used not just for food however conjointly as a research (plant-pathogen interactions) material. Generally, most of the tomato traits are agronomically imperative and cannot be studied using other model plant systems. It belongs to family Solanaceae and intimately associated with several commercially important plants like potato, tobacco, peppers, eggplant, and petunias. Production of tomato yield is affected each year due to range of pathogenic diseases that square measure caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and roundworm, enlarge all the methods through soil-borne, above-ground infections and in some instances are transmitted through insect feeding. This review is focused on the way to tomato-pathogen interactions analysis is very important and role of pathological processes connected factors and genes.