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the tomato processing industry globally

Ms Colvine Sophie

Companies/organisations
WPTC
Job title
General Secretary

Contact details

WPTC
Maison de l'Agriculture - TSA 48449
84912
Avignon Cedex 9
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As General Secretary of AMITOM & of WPTC, I have coordinated and/or participated in many research projects. 

I am also the Secretary of the ISHS Symposiums on the Processing Tomato organised every two years jointly with the WPTC congresses, and the Editor of the corresponding Acta Horticulturae. 

Research and topics

CROP PROTECTION, PESTS & DISEASES
ECONOMICS & MARKETS
consumption, market studies, market research
international trade, transport, shipping
profitability, income, break even
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
FIELD MANAGEMENT, IRRIGATION & FERTILIZATION
FRUIT & PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
NUTRITION & HEALTH
QUALITY PARAMETERS & METHODS OF ANALYSIS
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
TOMATO COMPONENTS & PRODUCTS
VARIETIES, BREEDING & GENETICS
As editor:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on the processing tomato (November 2007). Publisher: ISHS. Editor: A. B'Chir, S. Colvine. ISBN: 978 90 6605 660 2
  • Proceedings of the 12th international symposium on the processing tomato (January 2013). Publisher: ISHS. Editor: M. Camara, Li Guitong, S. Colvine. ISBN: 978 90 6605 715 9
  • Proceedings of the 13th international symposium on the processing tomato (May 2015). Publisher: ISHS. Editor: A. Battilani, M. Camara, S. Colvine. ISBN: 978 94 6261 074 3
  • Proceedings of the 14th international symposium on the processing tomato (May 2017). Publisher: ISHS. Editor: C. Argerich, M. Camara, S. Colvine. ISBN: 978 94 6261 154 2
As author:
  • The tomato: A seasoned traveller. S. Colvine & FX. Branthome. In: The Tomato Genome; Publisher: Springer. Editors:M. Causse, J. Giovannoni, M. Bouzayen , M. Zuine. ISBN  978 3 662 53387 1

Studies