[EN] The development of double haploids (DHs) is a straightforward path for obtaining pure lines but has multiple bottlenecks. Among them is the determination of the optimal stage of pollen induction for androgenesis. In ...
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, ...
Brenes, Marco; Pérez, Jason; González-Orenga, Sara; Solana, Andrea; Boscaiu, Monica; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Fita, Ana; Vicente, Oscar(MDPI AG, 2020-08)
[EN] This study investigated the physiological and biochemical responses to salinity stress of Solanum melongena and its wild relative, Solanum torvum, commonly used as eggplant rootstock. Young plants of both species were ...
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] 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 for food security. ...
Rakha, Mohamed; Namisy, Ahmed; Chen, Jaw-Rong; El-Mahrouk, Mohammed E.; Metwally, Elmahdy; Taha, Naglaa; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Taher, Dalia(MDPI, 2020-10)
[EN] Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacerum is one of the most economically and destructive eggplant diseases in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. The objectives of this study were to develop ...
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 ...
Kouassi, Koffi Brice Aymar; Kouassi, Abou Bakari; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; N'Gbesso, Mako François de Paul; Akanvou, Louise; N'Guetta, Assonvo Simon-Pierre; N Zi, Jean Claude; Kouassi, Auguste(GJAR, 2019-01-31)
[EN] Commercial varieties of eggplant, Solanummelongena, are vulnerable to future challenges related to the effects of climate change. It is
therefore important to provide plant breeders and farmers with plant material ...
Raubach, Sebastian; Kilian, Benjamin; Dreher, Kate; Amri, Ahmed; Bassi, Filippo M.; Cook, Douglas; Cruikshank, Alan; Fatokun, Christian; El Haddad, Noureddine; Humphries, Alan; Jordan, David; Kehel, Zakaria; Kumar, Shiv; Labarosa, Sandy Jan; Nguyen, Loi Huu; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Crop Science Society of America, 2021-05)
[EN] Management and distribution of experimental data from prebreeding projects is important to ensure uptake of germplasm into breeding and research programs. Being able to access and share this data in standard formats ...
Rosa-Martínez, Elena; Adalid-Martinez, Ana Maria; García-Martínez, María Dolores; Mangino, Giulio; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago(MDPI, 2022-02)
[EN] The wild species Solanum incanum has been used as a donor parent for the development of a set of eggplant introgression lines (ILs), which are of interest for breeding for stress tolerances and relevant morpho-agronomic ...
Mangino, Giulio; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Gramazio, Pietro(Elsevier, 2021-05-10)
[EN] Eggplant fruit shape is an important quantitative agronomic trait. The use of introgression lines (ILs) for QTLs identification is a powerful tool for the elucidation of the genetic control of eggplant fruit shape. ...
Ranil, R. H.; Niran, H. M. Lahiru; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Fonseka, Ramya; Hemal Fonseka, H.; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Gramazio, Pietro; Fita Fernández, Ana María; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Elsevier, 2015-09-22)
[EN] Solanum torvum is a highly vigorous relative of eggplant that is resistant to a number of harmful soil-borne diseases and is compatible for grafting with eggplant. Being a potential rootstock, this plant frequently ...
Ghose, Debasish; Tello-Oquendo, Luis; Pla, Vicent; Li, Frank Y.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022-10)
[EN] In wake-up radio (WuR) enabled Internet of things (IoT) networks, a data communication occurs in a synchronous or asynchronous manner initiated either by a transmitter or receiver. A synchronous transmission is triggered ...
Mangino, Giulio; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Gramazio, Pietro(MDPI, 2020-04)
[EN] Introgression lines (ILs) of eggplant (Solanum melongena) represent a resource of high value for breeding and the genetic analysis of important traits. We have conducted a phenotypic evaluation in two environments ...
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 ...
Brenes, Marco; Solana, Andrea; Boscaiu, Monica; Fita, Ana; Vicente, Oscar; Calatayud, Ángeles; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(MDPI, 2020-05)
[EN] Eggplant (Solanum melongena) has been described as moderately sensitive to salinity. We characterised the responses to salt stress of eggplant andS. insanum, its putative wild ancestor. Young plants of two accessions ...
Weerasinghe, Thilina N.; Casares-Giner, Vicente; Balapuwaduge, Indika A. M.; Li, Frank Y.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-05)
[EN] Although grant-based mechanisms have been a predominant approach for wireless access for years, the additional latency required for initial handshake message exchange and the extra control overhead for packet transmissions ...
[EN] Whiteflies and spider mites are amongst the most harmful eggplant (Solanum melongena) pests. Considering the need for reduction of chemical applications for whitefly and spider mite control, the exploitation of wild ...