Plant breeding is critical to the advancement of horticultural, especially in the Solanaceae family (including tomato, pepper, and eggplant), which relies on selecting high-performance lines for ...

Best home grown, tomatoes have a disputed history and origin. For instance, did you know they were at one time considered poisonous?

The starchy vegetable emerged 9 million years ago in the forming Andes mountains — a result of natural interbreeding between an ancient tomato plant and potato-like species that lacked the engorged ...

The pollen grains of 38 species and one variety of 17 genera in the family Solanaceae were studied using light microscopy (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Among them, the pollen morphology ...

The fruit naranjilla (Solanum quitoense), or “little orange,” as it’s translated in English, is actually a member of the Solanaceae family, so it’s closer to a tomato or an eggplant than an orange.

SGAs are secondary metabolites that accumulate in plants of the Solanaceae family. The SGAs α-solanine and α-chaconine are found in potatoes and are known to cause food poisoning. 2.

The glandular trichomes of many species in the Solanaceae family play an important role in plant defense. These epidermal outgrowths exhibit specialized secondary metabolism, including the production ...