Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) belongs to the Solanaceae family and is the second
most important fruit or vegetable crop next to potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). It is cultivated …

Domestication is a good model for the study of evolutionary processes because of the recent
evolution of crop species (< 12,000 years ago), the key role of selection in their origins, and …

Physiological water loss is one of the many postharvest disorders in the fresh fruit industry.
Water loss initiates wilting, shrivelling, browning, loss in fruit texture, flavour, and saleable …

Abstract Background The Solanaceae is a plant family of great economic importance.
Despite a wealth of phylogenetic work on individual clades and a deep knowledge of …

Fruiting structures in the angiosperms range from completely dry to highly fleshy organs and
provide many of our major crop products, including grains. In the model plant Arabidopsis …

We explored genetic variation by sequencing a selection of 84 tomato accessions and
related wild species representative of the Lycopersicon, Arcanum, Eriopersicon and …

The process of plant domestication is often protracted, involving underexplored intermediate
stages with important implications for the evolutionary trajectories of domestication traits …

Shapes of edible plant organs vary dramatically among and within crop plants. To explain
and ultimately employ this variation towards crop improvement, we determined the genetic …

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 …

Although human perception of food flavors involves integration of multiple sensory inputs,
the most salient sensations are taste and olfaction [1]. Ortho-and retronasal olfaction are …