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.) …

Genomics and marker-assisted improvement of vegetable crops

I Simko, M Jia, J Venkatesh, BC Kang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Improved genome assembly and pan‐genome provide key insights into eggplant domestication and breeding

L Barchi, MT Rabanus‐Wallace, J Prohens… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important horticultural crop and one of the most
widely grown vegetables from the Solanaceae family. It was domesticated from a wild …

Conventional and new genetic resources for an eggplant breeding revolution

P Gramazio, D Alonso, A Arrones… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a major vegetable crop with great potential for genetic
improvement owing to its large and mostly untapped genetic diversity. It is closely related to …

Growth and antioxidant responses triggered by water stress in wild relatives of eggplant

M Plazas, S González-Orenga, HT Nguyen… - Scientia …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wild relatives of eggplant (Solanum melongena) are of interest for breeding for tolerance to
drought. To assess the potential of eggplant wild relatives from different gene pools, 18 …

Diallel genetic analysis for multiple traits in eggplant and assessment of genetic distances for predicting hybrids performance

P Kaushik, M Plazas, J Prohens, S Vilanova… - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Evaluation and prediction of the performance of hybrids is important in eggplant (Solanum
melongena) breeding. A set of 10 morphologically highly diverse eggplant parents …

Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Salt Stress in Cultivated Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and in S. insanum L., a Close Wild Relative

M Brenes, A Solana, M Boscaiu, A Fita, O Vicente… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) has been described as moderately sensitive to salinity. We
characterised the responses to salt stress of eggplant and S. insanum, its putative wild …

Visiting eggplant from a biotechnological perspective: A review

DK Saini, P Kaushik - Scientia Horticulturae, 2019 - Elsevier
Eggplant is a member of family Solanaceae, and it is commonly cultivated in many parts of
the world. Eggplant is susceptible to a number of biotic and abiotic stresses, therefore, there …

Coding SNPs analysis highlights genetic relationships and evolution pattern in eggplant complexes

A Acquadro, L Barchi, P Gramazio, E Portis… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Brinjal (Solanum melongena), scarlet (S. aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon)
eggplants are three Old World domesticates. The genomic DNA of a collection of accessions …

Comparative Studies on the Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Salt Stress of Eggplant (Solanum melongena) and Its Rootstock S. torvum

M Brenes, J Pérez, S González-Orenga, A Solana… - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the physiological and biochemical responses to salinity stress of
Solanum melongena and its wild relative, Solanum torvum, commonly used as eggplant …