Eggplant is a vegetable crop that is grown around the world and can provide significant
nutritive benefits thanks to its abundance of vitamins, phenolics and antioxidants. In addition …

Domesticated food crops are derived from a phylogenetically diverse assemblage of wild
ancestors through artificial selection for different traits. Our understanding of domestication …

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an economically important vegetable crop in the
Solanaceae family, with extensive diversity among landraces and close relatives. Here, we …

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.) …

Background The common or brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) belongs to the
Leptostemonum Clade (the “spiny” solanums) of the species-rich genus Solanum …

Anthocyanins are important pigments that impart color in plants. In Solanum, different
species display various fruit or flower colors due to varying degrees of anthocyanin …

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 …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Single primer enrichment technology (SPET) is a new, robust, and customizable solution for
targeted genotyping. Unlike genotyping by sequencing (GBS), and like DNA chips, SPET is …