Solanum insanum L. (subgenus Leptostemonum Bitter, Solanaceae), the neglected wild progenitor of eggplant (S. melongena L.): a review of taxonomy, characteristics and uses aimed at its enhancement for improved eggplant breeding

Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena ): Poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction

(2016) Mindy M. Syfert et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Exploring tomato Solanum pennellii introgression lines for residual biomass and enzymatic digestibility traits

(2016) G. Caruso et al.   BMC GENETICS

Tropical Asian species show that the Old World clade of ‘spiny solanums’ (SolanumsubgenusLeptostemonum pro parte: Solanaceae) is not monophyletic

(2016) Xavier Aubriot et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Sequencing of the genus Arabidopsis identifies a complex history of nonbifurcating speciation and abundant trans-specific polymorphism

(2016) Polina Yu Novikova et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Phylogenomics Reveals Three Sources of Adaptive Variation during a Rapid Radiation

(2016) James B. Pease et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Phenotyping of Eggplant Wild Relatives and Interspecific Hybrids with Conventional and Phenomics Descriptors Provides Insight for Their Potential Utilization in Breeding

(2016) Prashant Kaushik et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The potential for crop to wild hybridization in eggplant (Solanum melongena; Solanaceae) in southern India

(2015) P. Davidar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Genetic diversity and population structure of wild/weedy eggplant (Solanum insanum, Solanaceae) in southern India: Implications for conservation

(2015) E. Mutegi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Parallel reductions in phenolic constituents resulting from the domestication of eggplant

(2015) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Comparing Medicinal Uses of Eggplant and Related Solanaceae in China, India, and the Philippines Suggests the Independent Development of Uses, Cultural Diffusion, and Recent Species Substitutions

(2014) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics

(2014) M. C. Fontaine et al.   SCIENCE

Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives

(2014) Hannes Dempewolf et al.   Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree

(2013) Tiina Särkinen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Whole genome resequencing in tomato reveals variation associated with introgression and breeding events

(2013) Mathilde Causse et al.   BMC GENOMICS

African spinySolanum(subgenusLeptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle

(2013) Maria. S. Vorontsova et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow inHeliconiusbutterflies

(2013) Simon H. Martin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A new liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry-based strategy to integrate chemistry, morphology, and evolution of eggplant (Solanum) species

(2013) Shi-Biao Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

Taxonomic notes on several wild relatives of Solanum melongena L. (Solanaceae): Comments on Meyer et al. (2012)

(2013) John Samuels   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genome skimming reveals the origin of the Jerusalem Artichoke tuber crop species: neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke

(2013) Dan G. Bock et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2013) Sandra Knapp et al.   PLoS One

Transgene flow from Bt brinjal: a real Risk?

(2013) John Samuels   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

A revision of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae)

(2013) Sandra Knapp   PhytoKeys

Phylogeographic relationships among Asian eggplants and new perspectives on eggplant domestication

(2012) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Variation Revealed by SNP Genotyping and Morphology Provides Insight into the Origin of the Tomato

(2012) Jose Blanca et al.   PLoS One

A new species of Solanum (Solanaceae) from South Africa related to the cultivated eggplant

(2012) Maria Vorontsova et al.   PhytoKeys

Solanum incanum s.l. (Solanaceae): taxonomic relationships between S. incanum, S. campylacanthum, S. panduriforme and S. lichtensteinii

(2012) John Samuels   KEW BULLETIN

Eggplant relatives as sources of variation for developing new rootstocks: Effects of grafting on eggplant yield and fruit apparent quality and composition

(2011) Carmina Gisbert et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Diversity in commercial varieties and landraces of black eggplants and implications for broadening the breeders’ gene pool

(2009) J.E. Muñoz-Falcón et al.   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

Evolution: Replacing Genes and Traits through Hybridization

(2009) Loren H. Rieseberg   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Joseph Hooker: a philosophical botanist

(2008) Jim Endersby   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES