World Vegetable Center Eggplant Collection: Origin, Composition, Seed Dissemination and Utilization in Breeding
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World Vegetable Center Eggplant Collection: Origin, Composition, Seed Dissemination and Utilization in Breeding
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.), two other under-utilized eggplant species, the scarlet eggplant (S. aethiopicum L.) and the gboma eggplant (S. macrocarpon L.) are also cultivated. The taxonomy and identification of eggplant wild relatives is challengin...
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The varieties of Solanum melongena L. display a wide range of fruit shapes and colors, ranging from oval or egg-shaped to long club-shaped; and from white, yellow, green through degrees of purple pigmentation to almost black. Most of the commercially important varieties have been selected from the long established types of the tropical India and China. In the past, farmers maintained and suppli...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Plant Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1664-462X
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01484