World vegetable center eggplant collection: origin, composition, seed dissemination and utilization in breeding

D Taher, SØ Solberg, J Prohens, Y Chou… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Eggplant is the fifth most economically important solanaceous crop after potato, tomato,
pepper, and tobacco. Apart from the well-known brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) …

Genetics and breeding for climate change in Orphan crops

SN Kamenya, EO Mikwa, B Song, DA Odeny - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Climate change is rapidly changing how we live, what we eat and produce, the crops we
breed and the target traits. Previously underutilized orphan crops that are climate resilient …

A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly reveals genetics for important traits in eggplant

Q Wei, J Wang, W Wang, T Hu, H Hu… - Horticulture …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an economically important vegetable crop in the
Solanaceae family, with extensive diversity among landraces and close relatives. Here, we …

Interspecific hybridization between eggplant and wild relatives from different genepools

M Plazas, S Vilanova, P Gramazio… - Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.ashs.org
Wild relatives represent a source of variation for many traits of interest for eggplant (Solanum
melongena) breeding, as well as for broadening the genetic base of this crop. However …

A RAD tag derived marker based eggplant linkage map and the location of QTLs determining anthocyanin pigmentation

L Barchi, S Lanteri, E Portis, G Valè, A Volante… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Both inter-and intra-specific maps have been developed in eggplant (Solanum melongena
L.). The former benefit from an enhanced frequency of marker polymorphism, but their …

Solanum aethiopicum: The Nutrient-Rich Vegetable Crop with Great Economic, Genetic Biodiversity and Pharmaceutical Potential

M Han, KN Opoku, NAB Bissah, T Su - Horticulturae, 2021 - mdpi.com
Solanum aethiopi cum is a very important vegetable for both rural and urban communities in
Africa. The crop is rich in both macro-and micronutrients compared with other vegetables …

Genetic diversity in morphological characters and phenolic acids content resulting from an interspecific cross between eggplant, Solanum melongena, and its wild …

J Prohens, BD Whitaker, M Plazas… - Annals of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Solanum incanum, the wild ancestor of eggplant, Solanum melongena, has been
considered as a source of variation for high content of phenolic acid conjugates in breeding …

Reducing Capacity, Chlorogenic Acid Content and Biological Activity in a Collection of Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum) and Gboma (S. macrocarpon) Eggplants

M Plazas, J Prohens, AN Cuñat, S Vilanova… - International Journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon) eggplants are important
vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa. Few studies have been made on these crops regarding …

Phenotyping of eggplant wild relatives and interspecific hybrids with conventional and phenomics descriptors provides insight for their potential utilization in breeding

P Kaushik, J Prohens, S Vilanova… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is related to a large number of wild species that are a
source of variation for breeding programmes, in particular for traits related to adaptation to …

Comparative analysis of the responses to water stress in eggplant (Solanum melongena) cultivars

M Plazas, HT Nguyen, S González-Orenga… - Plant Physiology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Little information is available on the physiological and biochemical responses to water
stress in eggplant (Solanum melongena). We evaluated four genetically diverse eggplant …