Parallel reductions in phenolic constituents resulting from the domestication of eggplant Author Meyer, Rachel S. The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458, United States & The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States & New York University, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, 12 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, United States Author Whitaker, Bruce D. Author Little, Damon P. Author Wu, Shi-Biao Author Kennelly, Edward J. Author Long, Chun-Lin Author Litt, Amy text Phytochemistry 2015 2015-07-31 115 1 194 206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2015.02.006 journal article 285558 10.1016/j.phytochem.2015.02.006 152a92bc-4c43-4de7-a8a1-c36679f34614 1873-3700 10486907 2.7. Correlation of compound abundance with site-origin of eggplant landraces Artificial selection for local preferences of fruit qualities such as flavor, as well as adaptation to local agricultural conditions and ecologies, may contribute to eggplant phenolic diversity just as genetic history does. To test this potential influence from landscape, another ANOVA was performed using groups based on floristic region, as defined by Takhtajan (1986) , of collection locales (site-origin) of S. melongena . Similar to previous tests, in this ANOVA abundance levels of all 21 compounds present in the 62 S. melongena samples were evaluated in addition to the total abundance levels. Since 95% of all samples were from four floristic regions that together span the range of all three possible domestication events, only those four regions were analyzed: the Eastern Asiatic floristic region ( n = 17); the Indian region ( n = 12); the Indochinese region ( n = 15), and the Malesian region ( n = 15). Only 3,5-di- O -[ E ]-feruloylquinic acid ( 27 ) was significantly different in abundance among groups. This compound, found only in four eggplants of Indonesian origin, is also minor (Table S1), and was not consistently produced in any species. Therefore, site-origin appears to have no clear relationship to the metabolite complements of these landraces.