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.) …

Wild Relatives of the Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): New Understanding of Species Names in a Complex Group

S Knapp, MS Vorontsova, J Prohens - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The common or brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) belongs to the
Leptostemonum Clade (the “spiny” solanums) of the species-rich genus Solanum …
M Nicolaï, M Cantet, V Lefebvre… - Genetic Resources and …, 2013 - Springer
Germplasm collections of cultivated plants constitute the source for further genetic progress.
These collections gained further interest with approaches for tracking allelic variants …

The population structure and diversity of eggplant from Asia and the Mediterranean Basin

F Cericola, E Portis, L Toppino, L Barchi, N Acciarri… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
A collection of 238 eggplant breeding lines, heritage varieties and selections within local
landraces provenanced from Asia and the Mediterranean Basin was phenotyped with …

Optimizing hybrid vigor: a comprehensive analysis of genetic distance and heterosis in eggplant landraces

N Rajan, S Debnath, K Perveen, F Khan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This study explored the molecular characterization of 14 eggplant (brinjal)
genotypes to evaluate their genetic diversity and the impact of heterosis. As eggplant is a …

Configuration of watermelon fruit quality in response to rootstock‐mediated harvest maturity and postharvest storage

MC Kyriacou, GA Soteriou, Y Rouphael… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The configuration of watermelon fruit quality was analysed in a multi‐
factorial approach accounting for the effects of grafting, harvest maturity and postharvest …

Diversity and relationships in key traits for functional and apparent quality in a collection of eggplant: Fruit phenolics content, antioxidant activity, polyphenol oxidase …

M Plazas, MP López-Gresa, S Vilanova… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) varieties with increased levels of phenolics in the fruit
present enhanced functional quality, but may display greater fruit flesh browning. We …

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 …

Parallel reductions in phenolic constituents resulting from the domestication of eggplant

RS Meyer, BD Whitaker, DP Little, SB Wu, EJ Kennelly… - Phytochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Crop domestication is often accompanied by changes in metabolite compositions that alter
traits such as flavor, color, or other beneficial properties. Fruits of eggplants (Solanum …