Acquadro, Alberto; Barchi, Lorenzo; Gramazio, Pietro; Portis, Ezio; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Comino, Cinzia; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Lanteri, Sergio(Public Library of Science, 2017)
[EN] Brinjal (Solanum melongena), scarlet (S. aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon) eggplants are three Old World domesticates. The genomic DNA of a collection of accessions belonging to the three cultivated species, ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Alonso-Martín, David; Arrones-Olmo, Andrea; Villanueva-Párraga, Gloria; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Toppino, Laura; Barchi, Lorenzo; Portis, Ezio; Ferrante, Paola; Lanteri, Sergio; Rotino, Giuseppe Leonardo; Giuliano, Giovanni; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Oxford University Press, 2023-10)
[EN] Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a major vegetable crop with great potential for genetic improvement owing
to its large and mostly untapped genetic diversity. It is closely related to over 500 species of Solanum ...
Tripodi, Pasquale; Rabanus-Wallace, Mark Timothy; Barchi, Lorenzo; Kale, Sandip; Esposito, Salvatore; Acquadro, Alberto; Schafleitner, Roland; van Zooneveld, Maarten; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Díez Niclós, Mª José Teresa De Jesús; Börner, Andreas; Salinier, Jérémy; Caromel, Bernard; Bovy, Arnaud; Boyaci, Filiz; Pasev, Gancho; Brandt, Ronny; Himmelbach, Axel; Portis, Ezio; Finkers, Richard; Lanteri, Sergio; Paran, Ilan; Lefebvre, Véronique; Giuliano, Giovanni; Stein, Nils(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021-08-24)
[EN] Genebanks collect and preserve vast collections of plants and
detailed passport information, with the aim of preserving genetic
diversity for conservation and breeding. Genetic characterization
of such collections has ...
[EN] In horticulture, grafting is a popular technique used to combine positive traits from two different plants. This is achieved by joining the plant top part (scion) onto a rootstock which contains the stem and roots. ...
[EN] 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, prickly progenitor carrying small, round, ...
Maioli, Alex; Gianoglio, Silvia; Moglia, Andrea; Acquadro, Alberto; Valentino, Danila; Milani, Anna Maria; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO; Lanteri, Sergio; Comino, Cinzia(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-12-03)
[EN] 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 quality for both industrial ...