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, ...
Syfert, M.M.; Castañeda-Álvarez, N.P.; Khoury, C.K.; Särkinen, T.; Sosa, C.C.; Achicanoy, H.A.; Bernau, V.; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Daunay, Marie Christine; Knapp, Sandra(Botanical Society of America, 2016)
[EN] PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Crop wild relatives (CWR) provide important traits for plant breeding, including pest, pathogen, and abiotic stress resistance. Therefore, their conservation and future availability are essential ...
Kaushik, Prashant; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Gramazio, Pietro(Public Library of Science, 2018)
[EN] Evaluation and prediction of the performance of hybrids is important in eggplant (Solanum melongena) breeding. A set of 10 morphologically highly diverse eggplant parents, including nine inbred S. melongena and one ...
Fita Fernández, Ana María; Fioruci, Fabrizio; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Rodríguez Burruezo, Adrián; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 2015)
[EN] Adapting eggplant (Solanum melongena) cultivars to climate change requires the development of drought
tolerant cultivars. In order to identify sources of variation for drought tolerance we have characterized ...
Kaushik, Prashant; Gramazio, Pietro; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Increasing the content in bioactive phenolics in the eggplant (Satanum melongena) fruit is of interest, but may result in enhanced browning. We evaluated six varieties of S. melongena, 22 accessions of wild related ...