The Capsicum genus is native to tropical America and consists of 27 species, five of which are used as fresh vegetables and spices: Capsicum annuum L., Capsicum chinense Jacq., Capsicum frutescens L., Capsicum baccatum L. ...
Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Ziarsolo Areitioaurtena, Pello; Gramazio, Pietro; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Anderson, Gregory Joseph; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2016)
[EN] Background
Solanum sect. Basarthrum is phylogenetically very close to potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota) and tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon), two groups with great economic importance, and for which Solanum sect. ...
Garcia-Mas, J.; Benjak, A.; Sanseverino, W.; Bourgeois, M.; Mir, G.; Gonzalez, V. M.; Henaff, E.; Câmara, F.; Cozzuto, L.; Lowy, E.; Alioto, T.; Capella-Gutierrez, S.; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Ziarsolo Areitioaurtena, Pello; Nuez Viñals, Fernando; Picó Sirvent, María Belén(National Academy of Sciences, 2012-07-17)
We report the genome sequence of melon, an important horticultural
crop worldwide. We assembled 375 Mb of the double-haploid
line DHL92, representing 83.3%of the estimatedmelon genome.We
predicted 27,427 protein-coding ...
Gramazio, Pietro; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Ziarsolo Areitioaurtena, Pello; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2016)
[EN] Background: Solanum incanum is a close wild relative of S. melongena with high contents of bioactive phenolics and drought tolerance. S. aethiopicum is a cultivated African eggplant cross-compatible with S. melongena. ...
Background: Cucurbita pepo belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. The "Zucchini" types rank among the highest-valued vegetables worldwide, and other C. pepo and related Cucurbita spp., are food staples and rich sources of ...
Background: Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a highly diverse species that is cultivated worldwide. Recent advances in massively parallel sequencing have begun to allow the study of nucleotide diversity in this species. The ...
Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Cordero Romay, Laura; Pascual Bañuls, Laura; Díez Niclós, Mª José Teresa de Jesús; Nuez Viñals, Fernando(Public Library of Science, 2012-10)
Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, is divided into two widely distributed varieties: the cultivated S. lycopersicum var. lycopersicum, and the weedy S. lycopersicum var. cerasiforme. Solanum pimpinellifolium is the most closely ...
[EN] Cucurbita pepo contains two cultivated subspecies, each of which encompasses four fruit-shape morphotypes (cultivar groups). The Pumpkin, Vegetable Marrow, Cocozelle, and Zucchini Groups are of subsp. pepo and the ...