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<emphasis box="[125,317,1653,1676]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
L.
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Type.
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.
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:
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,
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Lam., Tabl. Encycl.
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2: 22. 1794;
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Dunal, Prodr.
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[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 363. 1852;
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Dunal, Prodr.
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[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 355 (1852), nom. superfl. illeg.;
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Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 361. 1852;
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Blume var.
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Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 362. 1852;
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<emphasis box="[972,1091,1085,1108]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. indicum</emphasis>
Nees var.
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Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 310. 1852;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. schoenbrunnense</emphasis>
Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 365. 1852;
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<emphasis box="[954,1072,1185,1208]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. trongum</emphasis>
Poir. var.
<emphasis box="[1186,1334,1185,1208]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">tongdongense</emphasis>
Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 361. 1852;
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. undatum</emphasis>
Lam. var.
<emphasis box="[973,1109,1251,1274]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">aurantiacum</emphasis>
Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 359. 1852;
<taxonomicName authority="Dunal, Prodr." authorityName="Dunal, Prodr." class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="undatum" variety="violaceum">
<emphasis box="[1101,1222,1284,1307]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. undatum</emphasis>
Lam. var.
<emphasis box="[760,870,1318,1341]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">violaceum</emphasis>
Dunal, Prodr.
</taxonomicName>
[A. P. de Candolle] 13(1): 359. 1852;
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<emphasis box="[885,1031,1351,1374]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">S. melongena</emphasis>
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L.
<taxonomicName box="[1073,1213,1351,1374]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="melongena" variety="insanum">
var.
<emphasis box="[1123,1213,1351,1374]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1711">insanum</emphasis>
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(L.) Prain, Bengal Pl. 746 (1903).
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Erect or prostrate branched shrub,
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, prickly. Young stems terete, occasionally purplish, moderately stellate-pubescent to glabrescent with minute simple hairs, prickly, the stellate trichomes porrect, translucent, stalked, thestalks to
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long, the midpoints ca. same length as the rays or to
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long,
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wide at base, straight, flattened, yelloworange or purple, glabrous, spaced
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apart; bark of older stems glabrescent, gray to brown. Sympodial units difoliate, the leaves not geminate. Leaves simple, the blades
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wide, ca. 1.5X longer than wide, ovate, chartaceous, with 220 prickles on both surfaces, the prickles green or purple; adaxial and abaxial surfaces moderately stellate-pubescent with porrect, sessile or stalked trichomes, the stalks to 0.2, the rays 58,
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long, the midpoints ca. same length as the rays; major veins 35 pairs, sometimes purplish near the petiole, the finer venation usually visible abaxially but not adaxially; base truncate, sometimes obtuse; margins lobed, the lobes 23 on each side,
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long, broadly deltate, apically rounded, the sinuses extending 1/41/3 of the distance to the midvein; apex rounded to acute; petiole
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long, unbranched, with 13 flowers, 1 flower open at any one time; axes moderately stellate-pubescent to glabrescent, unarmed; peduncle
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long; pedicels
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long, erect, articulated at the base, moderately stellatepubescent to glabrescent, unarmed; pedicel scars spaced
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apart. Flowers 5(-6)-merous, heterostylous and the plants andromonoecious, with the lowermost flower long-styled and hermaphrodite, the distal flowers short-styled and staminate. Calyx
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long, moderately stellatepubescent, with 015 prickles, thelobes
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long, deltate, apically acute. Corolla
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in diameter, mauve, almost rotate, lobed for ca. 1/4 of the way to the base, the lobes
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long,
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wide, broadly deltate, spreading, sparsely stellate-pubescent abaxially, thetrichomes porrect, sessileor stalked, thestalks to
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, the rays 48,
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long, the midpoints ca. same length as the rays. Stamens equal, with the filament tube ca.
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long, the free portion of the filaments ca.
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long; anthers
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long, connivent, tapering, poricidal at the tips. Ovary stellate-pubescent in the upper 1/4; style
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long in long-styled flowers (
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long in short-styled flowers), broad and straight, moderately stellate-pubescent in the lower 1/2. Fruit a spherical berry, 12 per infructescence,
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in diameter, the pericarp smooth, dark green with pale green and cream markings when young, yellow at maturity, glabrous; fruiting pedicels
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long,
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indiameter at base, woody, pendulous, with 05 prickles; fruiting calyx lobes expanding to
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long, 1/41/3 the length of the mature fruit, reflexed, with 230 prickles. Seeds ca. 50150 per berry,
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long,
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wide, flattenedreniform, orangebrown, the surfaces minutely pitted, thetestal cells with straight lateral walls. Chromosome number: n = 12 (
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Karol KG &amp; Little DP &amp; Nee MH &amp; Litt A" box="[314,506,1355,1378]" journalOrPublisher="Mol Phylogenet Evol" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="685 - 701" part="63" refId="ref11283" refString="Meyer RS, Karol KG, Little DP, Nee MH, Litt A (2012) Phylogeographic relationships among Asian eggplants and new perspectives on eggplant domestication. Mol Phylogenet Evol 63: 685 - 701" title="Phylogeographic relationships among Asian eggplants and new perspectives on eggplant domestication" type="journal article" year="2012">Meyer et al. 2012</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[125,198,163,183]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Table 2</emphasis>
Some medicinal uses of
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<emphasis box="[443,543,163,183]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">S. insanum</emphasis>
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in selected Asian countries
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<th box="[125,227,207,227]" gridcol="0" gridrow="0" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Country</th>
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<th box="[944,1328,207,227]" gridcol="2" gridrow="0" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Source</th>
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<th box="[125,227,257,277]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">China</th>
<td box="[249,922,257,277]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Ingested to relieve liver problems</td>
<td box="[944,1328,257,277]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" box="[944,1125,257,277]" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
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<th box="[125,227,291,338]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">India</th>
<td box="[249,922,291,338]" gridcol="1" gridrow="2" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Seeds used to treat toothache; unspecified plant parts are consumed to relieve cough; topically applied to relieve skin problems</td>
<td box="[944,1328,291,338]" gridcol="2" gridrow="2" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" box="[944,1125,291,311]" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
</td>
</tr>
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<td box="[249,922,352,425]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Fruits stimulate the intrahepatic metabolism of cholesterol; leaves used in treatment of cholera, bronchitis and asthma; roots used to cure dyspepsia, fever, skin ailments, vomiting, ulcer and poisonous infections</td>
<td box="[944,1328,352,425]" gridcol="2" gridrow="3" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<bibRefCitation author="Sivarajan VV &amp; Balachandran I" box="[944,1272,352,372]" journalOrPublisher="Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" refId="ref12424" refString="Sivarajan VV, Balachandran I (1994) Ayurvedic drugs and their plant sources. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi" title="Ayurvedic drugs and their plant sources" type="book" year="1994">Sivarajan and Balachandran (1994)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Elias J &amp; Rajesh MG &amp; Anish NP &amp; Ragitha EV &amp; Jayan N" journalOrPublisher="Res J Pharmacogn Phytochem" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" pagination="364 - 376" part="2" refId="ref10125" refString="Elias J, Rajesh MG, Anish NP, Ragitha EV, Jayan N (2010) Pharmacognostic standaridation of Solanum melongena var. insanum Linn. Res J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2: 364 - 376" title="Pharmacognostic standaridation of Solanum melongena var. insanum Linn" type="journal article" year="2010">Elias et al. (2010)</bibRefCitation>
</td>
</tr>
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<td box="[249,922,439,485]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Ingredient of Ayurvedic medicine dasamula; cure for asthma, bronchitis, and cough; fruits used locally for toothache</td>
<td box="[944,1328,439,485]" gridcol="2" gridrow="4" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Chorley and Bharatan 3 (herbarium specimen with barcode BM000013803)</td>
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<th box="[125,227,499,546]" gridcol="0" gridrow="5" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Philippines</th>
<td box="[249,922,499,546]" gridcol="1" gridrow="5" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Leaves used in poultices are said to be mitigating and resolvent; seeds employed as a sedative, sometimes used to cure toothache</td>
<td box="[944,1328,499,546]" gridcol="2" gridrow="5" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<bibRefCitation author="Brown WH" box="[944,1074,499,519]" journalOrPublisher="Bureau of Forestry, Manila" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" refId="ref9697" refString="Brown WH (1920) Minor products of Philippine forests. Bureau of Forestry, Manila" title="Minor products of Philippine forests" type="book" year="1920">Brown (1920)</bibRefCitation>
</td>
</tr>
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<th box="[125,227,560,607]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Sri Lanka</th>
<td box="[249,922,560,607]" gridcol="1" gridrow="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Root used for various lung ailments, diarrhea, cough and rheumatism; leaves and stems made into a congee for convalescing patients</td>
<td box="[944,1328,560,607]" gridcol="2" gridrow="6" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<bibRefCitation author="Jayaweera DMA" box="[944,1107,560,580]" journalOrPublisher="National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Colombo" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712" part="vol 5" refId="ref10619" refString="Jayaweera DMA (1982) Medicinal plants (indigenous and exotic) used in Ceylon, vol 5. National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Colombo" title="Medicinal plants (indigenous and exotic) used in Ceylon" type="book" year="1982">Jayaweera (1982)</bibRefCitation>
</td>
</tr>
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<td box="[249,922,621,667]" gridcol="1" gridrow="7" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Treatment for edema, body aches and pain, heart diseases, asthma, piles, fever, facial paralysis and sciatica</td>
<td box="[944,1328,621,667]" gridcol="2" gridrow="7" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">http://www.instituteofayurveda.org</td>
</tr>
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<td box="[249,922,681,728]" gridcol="1" gridrow="8" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Roots used for various lung ailments, diarrhoea, coughs and rheumatism; leaves and stems used to prepare congee for convalescing patients</td>
<td box="[944,1328,681,728]" gridcol="2" gridrow="8" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Pers. obs.</td>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="5.[760,1355,1275,1721]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[760,815,1275,1295]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Fig. 2</emphasis>
Morphology of
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<emphasis box="[976,1137,1276,1296]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1150,1166,1275,1295]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">A</emphasis>
Flower from wild
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1337,1355,1277,1296]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">c</emphasis>
population in Sri Lanka (abandoned field in Anradhapura district, North Central province).
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1079,1094,1329,1348]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">B</emphasis>
Flower from Sri Lankan accession INS2 cultivated in Spain.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1099,1115,1355,1375]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">C</emphasis>
Flower from accession INS3 of unknown origin cultivated in Spain.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1192,1208,1382,1401]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">D</emphasis>
Longitudinal section of the flower (X10) of accession INS2.
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Fruit without prickly calyx (cultivated Sri Lankan accession in Spain) (accession INS2).
<emphasis bold="true" box="[932,946,1462,1481]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">F</emphasis>
The fruit with prickly calyx (Sri Lankan accession INS1 cultivated in Spain).
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1090,1108,1488,1508]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">G</emphasis>
The fruit without prickly calyx from a wild population in Sri Lanka (forest boundary in Matale district, Central province).
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1079,1097,1542,1561]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">H</emphasis>
Longitudinal section of a fruit of accession INS1.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[989,998,1568,1587]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">I</emphasis>
Microscopic view of seeds.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1268,1279,1568,1587]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">J</emphasis>
Stem with sharp and slightly curved prickles of accession INS1.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[125,180,1567,1587]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Fig. 1</emphasis>
Morphology of
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<emphasis box="[357,527,1568,1588]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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.
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Branch with prickles and mature leaves.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[375,390,1595,1614]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">B</emphasis>
Hermaphroditic flower.
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Mature fruit with prickly calyx. Drawn in the field from a weedy plant in Anradhapura district, North Central province, Sri Lanka. Illustration by I. Peabotuwage
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<paragraph blockId="5.[760,1355,1275,1721]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[760,778,1621,1640]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">K</emphasis>
Prostrate form of plant from a home garden. L Adaxial surface of leaf with
<emphasis box="[888,1084,1647,1667]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">dark purple prickles</emphasis>
(
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1103,1121,1648,1667]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">K</emphasis>
,
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1137,1152,1648,1667]" pageId="5" pageNumber="1712">L</emphasis>
both Anradhapura district, North Central province, Sri Lanka). (Color figure online)
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="7.[125,254,1421,1444]" box="[125,254,1421,1444]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Distribution</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[125,700,1488,1776]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">
(
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)
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<emphasis box="[242,432,1488,1511]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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occurs throughout south and southeast Asia, from eastern
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extending southwestwards to the Indian Ocean islands of
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and
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(where itmay have been taken by people) and eastwards to the
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. Bean (2012 onwards) reports
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<emphasis box="[309,425,1654,1677]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
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as naturalized in Queensland; this is certainly an introduction.
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<emphasis box="[155,349,1720,1743]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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has been cited as occurring in
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(https://training.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/ taxonomydetail.aspx?id=462492), but no specimens or references are cited. We have seen no herbarium specimens of
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<emphasis box="[915,1035,226,249]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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, but the related species
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<emphasis box="[937,1068,259,282]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. incanum</emphasis>
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is known from
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,
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and western
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in desert areas.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="7.[760,977,359,382]" box="[760,977,359,382]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Habitat and ecology</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[760,1334,425,813]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">
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<emphasis box="[760,957,425,448]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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is an annual or perennial weed usually growing in open fields and disturbed habitats around villages and other human-impacted areas. In
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, we have observed it cultivated in home gardens in all climatic zones as well as in shifting cultivation (slash and burn cultivation) in the drier parts of the island (
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) where it grows on a wide range of geographical, climatic and soil conditions and thrives well even in infertile soils. This suggests that material of
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<emphasis box="[889,1009,724,747]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
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might be useful for eggplant breeding for adaptation to drought and other abiotic environmental stresses.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="1716" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="7.[760,1290,857,913]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">
Comparison of
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with closely related
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">S. melongena</taxonomicName>
and
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</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName box="[760,956,957,980]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[760,956,957,980]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very variable morphologically both across its range and within populations (
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).
<bibRefCitation author="Hepper FN" box="[905,1065,1023,1046]" editor="Dassanayake MD" journalOrPublisher="Amerind Publishing Company Private Limited, New Delhi" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="365 - 409" part="vol 6" refId="ref10406" refString="Hepper FN (1987) Solanaceae. In: Dassanayake MD (ed) A revised handbook of the flora of Ceylon, vol 6. Amerind Publishing Company Private Limited, New Delhi, pp 365 - 409" title="Solanaceae" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="A revised handbook of the flora of Ceylon" year="1987">Hepper (1987)</bibRefCitation>
treated
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<emphasis box="[1159,1279,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a variety of
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<emphasis box="[867,1010,1056,1079]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in his treatment of
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in the
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Flora of
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</emphasis>
where he indicated that many forms of this variable species are apparent, even in a single wild population. In fact, many intermediate forms between
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<emphasis box="[941,1093,1189,1212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[1161,1286,1189,1212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are present in Southeast Asia, indicating that gene flow exists between both species (
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;
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). Considerable variation has also been described both between and within populations in central and southern
<collectingCountry box="[1027,1082,1355,1378]" name="India" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">India</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Deb DB" box="[1099,1209,1355,1378]" editor="Hawkes JG &amp; Lester RN &amp; Skelding AD" journalOrPublisher="Academic Press and Linnean Society of London, London" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="87 - 112" refId="ref9982" refString="Deb DB (1979) Solanaceae in India. In: Hawkes JG, Lester RN, Skelding AD (eds) The biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae. Academic Press and Linnean Society of London, London, pp 87 - 112" title="Solanaceae in India" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="The biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae" year="1979">Deb 1979</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Karihaloo JL &amp; Rai M" journalOrPublisher="Plant Genet Resour Newsl" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="24 - 26" part="103" refId="ref10646" refString="Karihaloo JL, Rai M (1995) Significance of morphological variability in Solanum insanum L. (sensu lato). Plant Genet Resour Newsl 103: 24 - 26" title="Significance of morphological variability in Solanum insanum L. (sensu lato)" type="journal article" year="1995">Karihaloo and Rai 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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). All members of the eggplant clade are morphologically very similar (
<bibRefCitation author="Knapp S &amp; Vorontsova MS &amp; Prohens J" box="[975,1180,1454,1477]" journalOrPublisher="PLoS ONE" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="e 57039" part="8" refId="ref10855" refString="Knapp S, Vorontsova MS, Prohens J (2013) Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group. PLoS ONE 8: e 57039" title="Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group" type="journal article" year="2013">Knapp et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Deb D" box="[1207,1334,1454,1477]" journalOrPublisher="Taxon" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="138 - 139" part="38" refId="ref10026" refString="Deb D (1989) Solanum melongena, Solanum incanum versus Solanum insanum (Solanaceae). Taxon 38: 138 - 139" title="Solanum melongena, Solanum incanum versus Solanum insanum (Solanaceae)" type="journal article" year="1989">Deb (1989)</bibRefCitation>
used prominent morphological traits to investigate the species boundaries of
<taxonomicName box="[993,1109,1521,1544]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[993,1109,1521,1544]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName box="[1121,1264,1521,1544]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[1121,1264,1521,1544]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="incanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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compared
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName box="[911,1034,1587,1610]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="incanum">
<emphasis box="[911,1034,1587,1610]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; both these authors distinguished the taxa as different, although later authors (
<bibRefCitation author="Lester RN &amp; Hasan SMZ" box="[767,1030,1654,1677]" editor="Hawkes JG &amp; Lester RN &amp; Skelding AD" journalOrPublisher="Academic Press and Linnean Society of London, London" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" pagination="369 - 387" refId="ref10995" refString="Lester RN, Hasan SMZ (1991) Origin and domestication of the brinjal eggplant, Solanum melongena, from Solanum incanum, in Africa and Asia. In: Hawkes JG, Lester RN, Skelding AD (eds) Solanaceae I: the biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae. Academic Press and Linnean Society of London, London, pp 369 - 387" title="Origin and domestication of the brinjal eggplant, Solanum melongena, from Solanum incanum, in Africa and Asia" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Solanaceae I: the biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae" year="1991">Lester and Hasan 1991</bibRefCitation>
;
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) used a series of informal group names under the species names
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<emphasis box="[937,1058,1720,1743]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName box="[1144,1290,1720,1743]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[1144,1290,1720,1743]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1714">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to encompass the variation and partial overlap in character states amongst these plants. As shown using molecular tools,
<emphasis box="[316,608,1178,1201]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">
<taxonomicName box="[316,442,1178,1201]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">S. insanum</taxonomicName>
,
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</emphasis>
, and
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="incanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are indeed closely related, but distinct (
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;
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[125,180,1002,1022]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Fig. 3</emphasis>
Geographical distribution of
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<emphasis box="[491,663,1003,1023]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
L. Apparent
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large gaps in the distribution of this very common species are due to a variety of factors. Among them are (1) our not having seen many local herbaria in India or Myanmar, (2) the lack of specificity in localities in many early collections from
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(see
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), and (3) possible collecting deficit, especially in
<collectingCountry box="[881,969,1056,1075]" name="Myanmar" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Myanmar</collectingCountry>
and Sumatra
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis box="[155,345,1310,1333]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is morphologically similar to the mostly African species
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<emphasis box="[384,506,1344,1367]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(distributed from northern Africa to
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, see
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), but can be distinguished from it in its sparser pubescence, less robust and usually straighter prickles, larger flowers, and distribution in Asia (see
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Vorontsova MS &amp; Knapp S" box="[233,572,1509,1532]" journalOrPublisher="Syst Bot Monogr" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715" pagination="1 - 436" part="99" refId="ref12700" refString="Vorontsova MS, Knapp S (2016) A revision of the '' spiny solanums' ', Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) in Africa and Madagascar. Syst Bot Monogr 99: 1 - 436" title="A revision of the '' spiny solanums' ', Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum (Solanaceae) in Africa and Madagascar" type="journal article" year="2016">Vorontsova and Knapp 2016</bibRefCitation>
), although poorly prepared specimens from
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can be difficult to identify.
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<emphasis box="[350,543,1576,1599]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
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has erect and prostrate forms throughout its range, while
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<emphasis box="[582,699,1609,1632]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
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is always an erect shrublet or shrub. The two species are possibly sympatric in
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(although we have seen no evidence of this), but
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<emphasis box="[466,588,1709,1732]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
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occurs in drier habitats and further to the west than
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<emphasis box="[575,692,1742,1765]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. insanum</emphasis>
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. The distribution of
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<emphasis box="[999,1129,1144,1167]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
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is from western
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,
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and
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across the Middle East and northern Africa. Citations of
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<emphasis box="[1147,1269,1211,1234]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. insanum</emphasis>
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from these areas are almost certainly references to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(or to the cultivated eggplant itself). Confusion over the distributional limits of these taxa comes in part from the treatment in
<emphasis box="[1077,1223,1344,1367]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">Flora Iranica</emphasis>
(covering western
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,
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and
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; Schönbeck-Temesy 1972) where the correct name,
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<emphasis box="[1205,1328,1410,1433]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, was used, but the distribution of the species was said to include what we know recognize as
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<emphasis box="[1164,1284,1476,1499]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. insanum</emphasis>
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. All specimens cited by
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are
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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As a cultivated plant,
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<emphasis box="[1021,1164,1576,1599]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. melongena</emphasis>
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shows morphological differences to
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<emphasis box="[1019,1145,1609,1632]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1715">S. insanum</emphasis>
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associated with domestication and subsequent evolution with human populations. These include fewer prickles on all plant parts, larger, often fasciated flowers with supernumerary parts, larger fruits, and spongy fruit mesocarp (
<bibRefCitation author="Knapp S &amp; Vorontsova MS &amp; Prohens J" box="[132,320,159,182]" journalOrPublisher="PLoS ONE" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="e 57039" part="8" refId="ref10855" refString="Knapp S, Vorontsova MS, Prohens J (2013) Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group. PLoS ONE 8: e 57039" title="Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group" type="journal article" year="2013">Knapp et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
; see also
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). Some landraces, however, can approach
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<emphasis box="[375,490,193,216]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
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in fruit size or stem prickliness. Also, some modern F1 hybrids have been created by seed companies in southeastern Asia that mimic fruits of
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<emphasis box="[306,427,292,315]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
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in fruit size, shape and colour, although they generallyhave noprickles on the calyx.
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reported outcrossing rate among the wild/weedy populations of
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<emphasis box="[574,699,392,415]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
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ranged from 533%, indicating a variable mixedmating system. In addition
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suggested that the exserted stigmas of
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<emphasis box="[541,659,492,515]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
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are likely to promote outcrossing and the most effective pollinators appeared to be bees, potentially increasing the diversity of
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<emphasis box="[323,450,591,614]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
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in wild populations. Because
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<emphasis box="[221,364,624,647]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[416,533,624,647]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are interfertile, and intermediate individuals can be observed,
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suggested a set of criteria useful for ascribing these intermediates to an individual species category. Assignment of a species name to an accessionwould bebasedonthenumber of characters shared (see Table
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).
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disagreed with the distinction of
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<emphasis box="[498,619,857,880]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
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, but offered no new evidence beyond that published previously (
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) using morphological analysis of a limited number of accessions.
</paragraph>
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The existence of intermediate hybrids between
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName box="[273,420,1023,1046]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[273,420,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
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is the basis for the wide variety of taxonomic treatments of these taxa in the past, through strict application of the Biological Species Concept (
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;
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), suggest that speciation with substantial gene flow is more common than previously thoughtand that the degree of introgression can be much higher than expected, especially in rapid, recent radiations (e.g.,
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). We can expectthistobe evenmoretrueindomesticatesthat are not geographically separated from their wild progenitors. Despite evidenceof introgression that sometimes may cause difficulties in assigning a species name to individual plants, we considerit importanttorecognize domesticated species such as
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<emphasis box="[1076,1220,226,249]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as distinct from their wild progenitors (here
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<emphasis box="[1117,1234,259,282]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) because domesticated plants are experiencing a completely different selection regime in commensal association with human populations than are their wild relatives.
</paragraph>
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In their discussion on the typification of
<taxonomicName authority=", Hepper and Jaeger (1985)" authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[1213,1327,392,415]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Hepper FN &amp; Jaeger PML" box="[760,1028,425,448]" journalOrPublisher="Kew Bull" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="387 - 391" part="40" refId="ref10445" refString="Hepper FN, Jaeger PML (1985) The typification of six Linnaean names in solanum. Kew Bull 40: 387 - 391" title="The typification of six Linnaean names in solanum" type="journal article" year="1985">Hepper and Jaeger (1985)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
clearly explain that Linnaeus described
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<emphasis box="[872,992,458,481]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as distinct from his earlier
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by indicating its prickly stems (and calyx) and thus, indicated that he considered
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<emphasis box="[1154,1267,525,548]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
a new speciesandnotareplacementnamefor
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<emphasis box="[1161,1300,558,581]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
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<emphasis box="[760,873,591,614]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. sanctum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was for
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<emphasis box="[963,1078,591,614]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the same publication,
<bibRefCitation author="Linnaeus C" box="[760,917,624,647]" journalOrPublisher="Laurent Salvius, Stockholm" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" refId="ref11096" refString="Linnaeus C (1762 a) Species plantarum, 2 nd edn. Laurent Salvius, Stockholm" title="Species plantarum, 2 nd edn" type="book" year="1762">Linnaeus 1762</bibRefCitation>
). Some authors have suggested that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was a misprint for
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<emphasis box="[1045,1161,658,681]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation author="Hepper FN &amp; Jaeger PML" journalOrPublisher="Kew Bull" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="387 - 391" part="40" refId="ref10445" refString="Hepper FN, Jaeger PML (1985) The typification of six Linnaean names in solanum. Kew Bull 40: 387 - 391" title="The typification of six Linnaean names in solanum" type="journal article" year="1985">Hepper and Jaeger 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Samuels J" box="[903,1052,691,714]" editor="Prohens J" journalOrPublisher="Corvinus University of Budapest, Kecskemet, Hungary" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="126 - 139" refId="ref12288" refString="Samuels J (2016) Solanum insanum L. (Solanaceae): Linnaean species or introgressed hybrid? In: Prohens J (eds) Proceedings of the XVIth EUCARPIA Capsicum and eggplant meeting. Corvinus University of Budapest, Kecskemet, Hungary, pp 126 - 139" title="Solanum insanum L. (Solanaceae): Linnaean species or introgressed hybrid?" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Proceedings of the XVIth EUCARPIA Capsicum and eggplant meeting" year="2016">Samuels 2016</bibRefCitation>
); it is unfortunate the two names are so similar but they are not considered confusable (R. Brummitt, pers. comm.).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="9.[760,856,824,847]" box="[760,856,824,847]" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">
<emphasis box="[760,856,824,847]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">Cytology</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="9.[760,1335,890,1511]" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">
Hybrids between
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[958,1079,890,913]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[958,1079,890,913]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName box="[1141,1290,890,913]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[1141,1290,890,913]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are fully fertile (
<bibRefCitation author="Swaminathan MS" box="[892,1098,923,946]" journalOrPublisher="M. Sc. Dissertation, I. A. R. I. New Delhi, India" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" refId="ref12515" refString="Swaminathan MS (1949). Cytotaxonomic study in the genus Solanum. M. Sc. Dissertation, I. A. R. I. New Delhi, India" title="Cytotaxonomic study in the genus Solanum" type="book" year="1949">Swaminathan 1949</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Mittal SP" box="[1111,1235,923,946]" journalOrPublisher="M. Sc. Dissertation, I. A. R. I. New Delhi" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" refId="ref11412" refString="Mittal SP (1950). Studies in non-tuberous species and hybrid of Solanum. M. Sc. Dissertation, I. A. R. I. New Delhi" title="Studies in non-tuberous species and hybrid of Solanum" type="book" year="1950">Mittal 1950</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Bhaduri PN" journalOrPublisher="Indian J Genet Plant Breed" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="75 - 81" part="11" refId="ref9451" refString="Bhaduri PN (1951) Inter-relationship of non-tuberiferous species of Solanum with some consideration of the origin of brinjal (S. melongena L.). Indian J Genet Plant Breed 11: 75 - 81" title="Inter-relationship of non-tuberiferous species of Solanum with some consideration of the origin of brinjal (S. melongena L.)" type="journal article" year="1951">Bhaduri 1951</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Rao BL" box="[830,935,956,979]" journalOrPublisher="M. Sc. Dissertation, University of Madras, India" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" refId="ref11915" refString="Rao BL (1956). Cytomorphological studies on certain interspecific hybrid of non-tuberous Solanum species. M. Sc. Dissertation, University of Madras, India" title="Cytomorphological studies on certain interspecific hybrid of non-tuberous Solanum species" type="book" year="1956">Rao 1956</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Kashyap V &amp; Kumar VV &amp; Collonnier C &amp; Fusari F &amp; Haicour R &amp; Rotino GL &amp; Sihachakr D &amp; Rajan MV" box="[953,1173,956,979]" journalOrPublisher="Sci Hortic" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="1 - 25" part="97" refId="ref10713" refString="Kashyap V, Kumar VV, Collonnier C, Fusari F, Haicour R, Rotino GL, Sihachakr D, Rajan MV (2003) Biotechnology of eggplant. Sci Hortic 97: 1 - 25" title="Biotechnology of eggplant" type="journal article" year="2003">Kashyap et al. 2003</bibRefCitation>
), which is not surprising given that both species are diploid (2n = 24 for
<taxonomicName box="[799,945,1023,1046]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[799,945,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The direct cytological assessment of two accessions of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[1015,1139,1056,1079]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[1015,1139,1056,1079]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with contrasting phenotypes was conducted by
<bibRefCitation author="Rai UK" box="[1095,1214,1089,1112]" journalOrPublisher="Caryologia" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="299 - 316" part="12" refId="ref11892" refString="Rai UK (1959) Cytogenetic studies on Solanum melongena L. I. Chromosome morphology. Caryologia 12: 299 - 316" title="Cytogenetic studies on Solanum melongena L. I. Chromosome morphology" type="journal article" year="1959">Rai (1959)</bibRefCitation>
. He evaluated one accession with big leaves and few thorns, which was diploid and had 12 chromosomes, and another one with small leaves and dense thorns, which had a small fragment in addition to normal diploid complement.
<bibRefCitation author="Kirti PB &amp; Rao BGS" box="[909,1144,1255,1278]" journalOrPublisher="Genetica" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="127 - 131" part="59" refId="ref10795" refString="Kirti PB, Rao BGS (1982) Cytological studies on F 1 hybrids of Solanum integrifolium with S. melongena and S. melongena var. insanum. Genetica 59: 127 - 131" title="Cytological studies on F 1 hybrids of Solanum integrifolium with S. melongena and S. melongena var. insanum" type="journal article" year="1982">Kirti and Rao (1982)</bibRefCitation>
also reported 12 chromosomes in
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<emphasis box="[952,1074,1289,1312]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(2n = 24) and studied chromosome associations and frequencies of associated chromosome arms in
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[1053,1172,1355,1378]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[1053,1172,1355,1378]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and its hybrid with
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<emphasis box="[818,988,1388,1411]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. integrifolium</emphasis>
Poir.
</taxonomicName>
(=
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<emphasis box="[1086,1249,1388,1411]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. aethiopicum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L., the Scarlet eggplant, an African species cultivated for its leaves and fruits that is not a member of the Eggplant clade s.s.; see
<bibRefCitation author="Vorontsova MS &amp; Stern S &amp; Bohs L &amp; Knapp S" box="[914,1159,1488,1511]" journalOrPublisher="Bot J Linn Soc" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716" pagination="176 - 193" part="173" refId="ref12736" refString="Vorontsova MS, Stern S, Bohs L, Knapp S (2013) African spiny solanum (subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle. Bot J Linn Soc 173: 176 - 193" title="African spiny solanum (subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle" type="journal article" year="2013">Vorontsova et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[760,1192,1587,1611]" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">Economic botany and phytochemistry</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="9.[760,1092,1654,1677]" box="[760,1092,1654,1677]" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">Food value and medicinal uses</paragraph>
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Eggplant (
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<emphasis box="[879,1029,1720,1743]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="1716">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) has long been used in a variety of medicinal and culinary preparations across many different Asian ethnolinguistic groups (
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. 2014</bibRefCitation>
). Because of the close similarity and taxonomic confusions between
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[486,611,226,249]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[486,611,226,249]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authority="(Knapp et al. 2013)" baseAuthorityName="Knapp" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Knapp S &amp; Vorontsova MS &amp; Prohens J" box="[257,451,259,282]" journalOrPublisher="PLoS ONE" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="e 57039" part="8" refId="ref10855" refString="Knapp S, Vorontsova MS, Prohens J (2013) Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group. PLoS ONE 8: e 57039" title="Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group" type="journal article" year="2013">Knapp et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, it is often difficult to separate the information on medicinal uses and food value of
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<emphasis box="[240,368,326,349]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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<emphasis box="[456,610,326,349]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the literature. For example,
<bibRefCitation author="Jayaweera DMA" box="[392,585,359,382]" journalOrPublisher="National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Colombo" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" part="vol 5" refId="ref10619" refString="Jayaweera DMA (1982) Medicinal plants (indigenous and exotic) used in Ceylon, vol 5. National Science Council of Sri Lanka, Colombo" title="Medicinal plants (indigenous and exotic) used in Ceylon" type="book" year="1982">Jayaweera (1982)</bibRefCitation>
has given the medicinal properties of
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<emphasis box="[417,625,392,415]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Solanum surattense</emphasis>
Burm.
</taxonomicName>
f. (=
<taxonomicName box="[174,333,425,448]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="virginianum">
<emphasis box="[174,333,425,448]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. virginianum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
L.), but both his description and botanical illustration are of the local Sri Lankan form of
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<emphasis box="[154,271,492,515]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Our observations in local communities in
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indicate that people have a clear knowledge of the differences between
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<emphasis box="[570,692,558,581]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, known as
<emphasis box="[256,352,591,614]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Ela batu</emphasis>
, and
<taxonomicName box="[434,582,591,614]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[434,582,591,614]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
known as
<emphasis box="[139,189,624,647]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Batu</emphasis>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Knapp S &amp; Vorontsova MS &amp; Prohens J" box="[219,428,624,647]" journalOrPublisher="PLoS ONE" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="e 57039" part="8" refId="ref10855" refString="Knapp S, Vorontsova MS, Prohens J (2013) Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group. PLoS ONE 8: e 57039" title="Wild relatives of the eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): new understanding of species names in a complex group" type="journal article" year="2013">Knapp et al. (2013)</bibRefCitation>
reported that in southern
<collectingCountry box="[125,189,657,680]" name="China" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">China</collectingCountry>
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[203,328,658,681]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[203,328,658,681]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is considered distinct from the cultivated
<taxonomicName box="[238,382,691,714]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[238,382,691,714]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by local people.
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
compared medicinal attributes of
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<emphasis box="[557,699,724,747]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[170,287,757,780]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[170,287,757,780]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<collectingCountry box="[321,387,757,780]" name="China" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">China</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry box="[398,453,757,780]" name="India" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">India</collectingCountry>
and the
<collectingCountry box="[544,667,757,780]" name="Philippines" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Philippines</collectingCountry>
. In all three areas the species were clearly distinguished, but had similar medicinal uses.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="10.[125,700,159,1776]" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
In Asia,
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<emphasis box="[254,375,857,880]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is consumed as a vegetable, mainly as a component of curries, but
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
found its consumption was always associated with medicinal properties. In some areas,
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<emphasis box="[581,699,957,980]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
use differs markedly from use of
<taxonomicName box="[472,615,990,1013]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[472,615,990,1013]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, further supporting their distinction.
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Bamshad M &amp; Fuller DQ &amp; Litt A" box="[426,631,1023,1046]" journalOrPublisher="Econ Bot" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="137 - 152" part="68" refId="ref11320" refString="Meyer RS, Bamshad M, Fuller DQ, Litt A (2014) Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions. Econ Bot 68: 137 - 152" title="Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusions, and recent species substitutions" type="journal article" year="2014">Meyer et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
found that in the
<collectingCountry box="[244,364,1056,1079]" name="Philippines" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Philippines</collectingCountry>
it is recommended to avoid
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
consumption when pregnant; however, domesticated eggplants were associated with improved foetal development, and
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<emphasis box="[503,648,1156,1179]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
root was used to promote uterine stabilization after miscarriage. In
<collectingCountry box="[302,414,1222,1245]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
, people recommend consumption of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[276,401,1255,1278]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[276,401,1255,1278]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
fruits (as a curry) when suffering from colds; conversely
<taxonomicName box="[485,631,1289,1312]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="melongena">
<emphasis box="[485,631,1289,1312]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not recommended for treatment of the common cold.
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[125,323,1355,1378]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[125,323,1355,1378]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Solanum insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is important medicinally across Asia (
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Hul S &amp; Dy Phon P" box="[195,449,1454,1477]" editor="Aubreville A &amp; Leroy JF &amp; Morat P" journalOrPublisher="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France &amp; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="1 - 93" refId="ref10491" refString="Hul S, Dy Phon P (2014) Solanaceae. In: Aubreville A, Leroy JF, Morat P (eds.). Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France &amp; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp 1 - 93" title="Solanaceae" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam" year="2014">Hul and Dy Phon 2014</bibRefCitation>
, as
<taxonomicName box="[497,618,1455,1478]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="incanum">
<emphasis box="[497,618,1455,1478]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. incanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); some medicinal uses of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[350,478,1488,1511]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[350,478,1488,1511]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in selected Asian countries are summarized in
<tableCitation box="[441,524,1521,1544]" captionStart="Table 2" captionStartId="5.[125,180,164,183]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Table 2 Some medicinal uses of S. insanum in selected Asian countries" httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/5ACA666B550DFFB8FFF5FF60C17A679A" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" tableUuid="5ACA666B550DFFB8FFF5FF60C17A679A">Table 2</tableCitation>
. Further collection and documentation of such information and knowledge from different Asian ethnolinguistic groups will support the advancement of future pharmacological studies related to
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[458,576,1654,1677]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[458,576,1654,1677]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as well as helping to promote its use for the breeding of eggplants with improved bioactive properties beneficial for human health (
<bibRefCitation author="Plazas M &amp; Andujar I &amp; Vilanova S &amp; Hurtado M &amp; Gramazio P &amp; Herraiz FJ &amp; Prohens J" box="[370,560,1753,1776]" journalOrPublisher="Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="26 - 35" part="41" refId="ref11761" refString="Plazas M, Andujar I, Vilanova S, Hurtado M, Gramazio P, Herraiz FJ, Prohens J (2013) Breeding for chlorogenic acid content in eggplant: interest and prospects. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 41: 26 - 35" title="Breeding for chlorogenic acid content in eggplant: interest and prospects" type="journal article" year="2013">Plazas et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="1718" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" type="multiple">
<paragraph blockId="10.[760,1296,159,215]" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
<emphasis box="[760,1296,159,182]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Pharmacognostical and phytochemical properties</emphasis>
<emphasis box="[760,905,192,215]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[788,905,192,215]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">S. insanum</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="10.[760,1335,258,1775]" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
The pharmacognostical and phytochemical properties of cultivated eggplants are well known (
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Komlaga G &amp; Sam GH &amp; Dickson RA &amp; Mensah MLK &amp; Fleischer TC" box="[1067,1284,325,348]" journalOrPublisher="J Pharm Sci Res" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="1 - 4" part="6" refId="ref10896" refString="Komlaga G, Sam GH, Dickson RA, Mensah MLK, Fleischer TC (2014) Pharmacognostic studies and antioxidant properties of the leaves of Solanum macrocarpon. J Pharm Sci Res 6: 1 - 4" title="Pharmacognostic studies and antioxidant properties of the leaves of Solanum macrocarpon" type="journal article" year="2014">Komlaga et al. 2014</bibRefCitation>
) but there is much less information from
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<emphasis box="[1150,1267,358,381]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Elias J &amp; Rajesh MG &amp; Anish NP &amp; Ragitha EV &amp; Jayan N" journalOrPublisher="Res J Pharmacogn Phytochem" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="364 - 376" part="2" refId="ref10125" refString="Elias J, Rajesh MG, Anish NP, Ragitha EV, Jayan N (2010) Pharmacognostic standaridation of Solanum melongena var. insanum Linn. Res J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2: 364 - 376" title="Pharmacognostic standaridation of Solanum melongena var. insanum Linn" type="journal article" year="2010">Elias et al. (2010)</bibRefCitation>
assessed extracts of root, fruits and leaves of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[789,906,424,447]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[789,906,424,447]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName box="[952,1241,424,447]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="variety" species="melongena" variety="insanum">
<emphasis box="[952,1096,424,447]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
var.
<emphasis box="[1151,1241,424,447]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) used in Ayurvedic preparations and showed that the methanolic extract of root contained the highest number of phytoconstituents such as flavonoids, coumarins, alkaloids, tannins, anthroquinines, phenols, resins, glycosides/reducing sugar, proteins and carbohydrates.
<bibRefCitation author="Bhakyaraj R" box="[835,1021,623,646]" journalOrPublisher="PhD. Dissertation, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappall, India" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" refId="ref9488" refString="Bhakyaraj R (2010) In-vitro culture, hairy root induction, solasodine production and pharmacological studies on Solanum melongena var. insanum. PhD. Dissertation, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappall, India" title="In-vitro culture, hairy root induction, solasodine production and pharmacological studies on Solanum melongena var. insanum" type="book" year="2010">Bhakyaraj (2010)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that the production of solasodine from field grown plants and in vitro raised callus and hairy roots of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[1139,1263,690,713]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[1139,1263,690,713]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is an efficient way to generate an alternative source of supply of solasodine, a glycoalkaloid used as a precursor in the production of complex steroidal compounds such as contraceptive pills (
<bibRefCitation author="Roddick JG" editor="D'Arcy WG" journalOrPublisher="Columbia University Press, NewYork" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="201 - 222" refId="ref11966" refString="Roddick JG (1986) Steroidal alkaloids of the Solanaceae. In: D'Arcy WG (ed) Biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae. Columbia University Press, NewYork, pp 201 - 222" title="Steroidal alkaloids of the Solanaceae" type="book chapter" volumeTitle="Biology and taxonomy of the Solanaceae" year="1986">Roddick 1986</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Sulaiman JA &amp; Shree R" box="[845,1164,856,879]" journalOrPublisher="Int J Pharmacogn Phytochem Res" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="28 - 37" part="4" refId="ref12483" refString="Sulaiman JA, Shree R (2012) Pharmacognostical and phytochemical comparison of roots of Solanum species used in Ayurvedic formulations. Int J Pharmacogn Phytochem Res 4: 28 - 37" title="Pharmacognostical and phytochemical comparison of roots of Solanum species used in Ayurvedic formulations" type="journal article" year="2012">Sulaiman and Shree (2012)</bibRefCitation>
compared the pharmacognostical and phytochemical properties of root of
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" box="[837,953,923,946]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis box="[837,953,923,946]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with four other
<taxonomicName box="[1124,1305,922,946]" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
<emphasis box="[1124,1217,923,946]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">Solanum</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName authorityName=", Hepper and Jaeger" authorityYear="1985" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Solanaceae" genus="Solanum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Solanales" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="insanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
had the highest total flavonoid content of the species they used.
</paragraph>
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The fruit metabolites of
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<emphasis box="[1046,1161,1022,1045]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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were studied by
<bibRefCitation author="Wu SB &amp; Meyer RS &amp; Whitaker BD &amp; Litt A &amp; Kennelly EJ" box="[760,953,1055,1078]" journalOrPublisher="J Chromatogr A" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="154 - 172" part="1314" refId="ref12825" refString="Wu SB, Meyer RS, Whitaker BD, Litt A, Kennelly EJ (2013) A new liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based strategy to integrate chemistry, morphology, and evolution of eggplant (Solanum) species. J Chromatogr A 1314: 154 - 172" title="A new liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based strategy to integrate chemistry, morphology, and evolution of eggplant (Solanum) species" type="journal article" year="2013">Wu et al. (2013)</bibRefCitation>
as part of the development of a
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-specific metabolic database using LCTOF-MS. They reported 34 metabolites from the phenylpropanoid, flavonoid/anthocyanin, complex alkaloids and shikimate and aromatic acids pathways in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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. Of these, 31 were present in both
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<emphasis box="[1218,1334,1221,1244]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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and
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,
</emphasis>
but three (the flavonoid glucosides kaempferol-3-
<emphasis box="[913,932,1288,1311]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">O</emphasis>
-rutinoside-7-
<emphasis box="[1078,1097,1288,1311]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">O</emphasis>
-glucoside, naringenin-7-
<emphasis box="[850,869,1321,1344]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">O</emphasis>
-glucoside, and the flavonone eriodictyol) were present in
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<emphasis box="[962,1090,1354,1377]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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but absent from
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">
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.
</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Meyer RS &amp; Whitaker BD &amp; Littler DP &amp; Wu SB &amp; Kennelly EJ &amp; Long CL &amp; Litt A" box="[896,1119,1387,1410]" journalOrPublisher="Phytochemistry" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="194 - 206" part="115" refId="ref11371" refString="Meyer RS, Whitaker BD, Littler DP, Wu SB, Kennelly EJ, Long CL, Litt A (2015) Parallel reduction in phenolic constituents resulting from the domestication of eggplant. Phytochemistry 115: 194 - 206" title="Parallel reduction in phenolic constituents resulting from the domestication of eggplant" type="journal article" year="2015">Meyer et al. (2015)</bibRefCitation>
also found that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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had higher total levels of phenolic metabolites than did
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<emphasis box="[902,1045,1454,1477]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
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, and that for eight of these, including the most abundant phenolic compound 5-
<emphasis box="[1306,1325,1487,1510]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">O</emphasis>
- (E)-caffeoylquinic acid, these differences were significant.
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suggested that the differences between
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<emphasis box="[856,972,1587,1610]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[1024,1168,1587,1610]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. melongena</emphasis>
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were related to domestication and subsequent human selection for chemical properties. Some of the compounds present in
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<emphasis box="[788,906,1686,1709]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">S. insanum</emphasis>
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, like 5-
<emphasis box="[991,1010,1686,1709]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717">O</emphasis>
-(E)-caffeoylquinic acid, have bioactive properties of interest for human health (
<bibRefCitation author="Plazas M &amp; Andujar I &amp; Vilanova S &amp; Hurtado M &amp; Gramazio P &amp; Herraiz FJ &amp; Prohens J" box="[767,980,1752,1775]" journalOrPublisher="Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca" pageId="10" pageNumber="1717" pagination="26 - 35" part="41" refId="ref11761" refString="Plazas M, Andujar I, Vilanova S, Hurtado M, Gramazio P, Herraiz FJ, Prohens J (2013) Breeding for chlorogenic acid content in eggplant: interest and prospects. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 41: 26 - 35" title="Breeding for chlorogenic acid content in eggplant: interest and prospects" type="journal article" year="2013">Plazas et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
). However, further studies on pharmacognostical and phytochemical properties of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="1718">S. insanum</emphasis>
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are needed to assess its potential role in the improvement of bioactive constituents of eggplant.
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