Covering: up to 1 October 2020 Solanum steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGA), characterized by
nitrogenous steroidal aglycone and glycoside residues, mainly occur in the Solanum …

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

An enduring question in evolutionary biology concerns the degree to which episodes of
convergent trait evolution depend on the same genetic programs, particularly over long …

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

Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) catalyze the oxidization of polyphenols, which in turn causes
the browning of the eggplant berry flesh after cutting. This has a negative impact on fruit …

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 …

Carotenoids are major accessory pigments in the chloroplast, and they also act as
phytohormones and volatile compound precursors to influence plant development and …

Nicotiana benthamiana is an invaluable model plant and biotechnology platform with a~ 3
Gb allotetraploid genome. To further improve its usefulness and versatility, we have …

Solanaceae plants produce two major classes of valuable sterol-derived natural products—
steroidal glycoalkaloids and steroidal saponins—from a common cholesterol precursor …

The study of the diversity within and between major Solanaceae crops (pepper, tomato,
eggplant) is of interest for the selection and development of balanced diets. We have …