Called “nightshades” in GBIF
Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant. It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae, comprising around 1,500 species. It also contains the so-called horse nettles, as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit.
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Solanum lycopersicum
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Solanum tuberosum
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Solanum melongena
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Solanum dulcamara
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Solanum rostratum
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Solanum carolinense
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Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
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Solanum pimpinellifolium
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Solanum muricatum
1 articleIf you've ever watched your tomato plants wilt in a summer dry spell while a neighbor's kept prod...
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Scientists used a tiny implantable sensor called a Bioristor to track how tomato plants respond to drought in real time, making it faster and cheaper to spot which varieties can handle water stress before committing to years of breeding trials.
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The waste left behind by insect farming, something usually thrown out, could end up feeding the tomato plants in your backyard...
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The tomatoes ripening on your patio vines owe their sweetness to a tug-of-war inside their cells between proteins that hoard...
If you've ever composted scraps to feed your garden, this shows how a food-processing byproduct can replace a chunk of...
Spotting this vine in a remote spot like Frenchglen helps land managers catch invasive species before they spread through...
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The potatoes on your dinner plate form underground tubers on a strict internal clock, and this study shows breeders can't...
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If you grow tomatoes in soil with any salt buildup, from coastal gardens to over-fertilized beds, the rootstock you choose can...
If you grow tomatoes or peppers through a brutal summer, the same heat-stress biology this review untangles (wilting, stalled...
The bread you eat and the cotton in your shirt both come from plants carrying doubled or tripled genomes, a quirk that let...
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If you've got a shady fence line or vacant lot nearby, this purple-flowered vine may already be creeping in, and its berries...
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The humble potato, already a dinner-table staple for billions, could become a frontline defense against a nutrient deficiency...
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The olive groves and wheat fields that have shaped Mediterranean landscapes for millennia are now targets for precision...
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Watering your tomatoes on a graduated deficit schedule — intentionally letting them experience mild dry spells before summer...
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Growing your own seed potatoes indoors just got more practical — tuning the ratio of red to blue light in a grow light turns...
The same Phytophthora family that caused the Irish Potato Famine is still destroying tomato crops today — and friendly soil...
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If you've ever tried growing tomatoes in coastal, drought-affected, or heavily irrigated soil that's gone salty and bitter,...
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Staple crops like potatoes, corn, and rice are being quietly rewritten at the molecular level so their starch digests more...
Tomatoes in your garden could soon be bred to fight off one of their worst insect enemies on their own — no sprays, no stunted...
Tomatoes engineered to resist drought, rice bred to fight blight without pesticides, and vegetables tailored to your climate...
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The gray mold that collapses your tomato plants by August has evolved its own molecular toolkit to crack the very chemical...
If you grow tomatoes through a hot, dry summer and watch them wilt no matter how carefully you water, a simple soil drench...
Tomatoes you grow from seed today are one gene-editing generation away from delivering meaningfully more vitamins and...
Tomato plants that fruit without bees during summer heat waves could keep your garden productive through the increasingly...
Potato plants you grow have an invisible social life underground—and tweaking one gene could let farmers invite far more...
Tansy, bittersweet nightshade, and black poplar each mount a chemically distinct defense when bugs and dry spells hit together...
Every stress response your tomatoes show — wilting, yellowing, that sudden bolt to seed — is driven by hormone signals this...
If your vegetable beds or orchard sit near farm fields treated with weed killers or insecticides, amending your soil with...
If you're growing tomatoes in raised beds amended with salty tap water or near coastal soils, these two cheap,...
If you've ever grafted tomatoes onto disease-resistant rootstocks, the microbes you add to the soil could either amplify or...
Manure-amended vegetable beds may carry invisible antibiotic residues that quietly suppress your tomato seedlings' growth and...
If you've ever grown tomatoes near fields plagued by broomrape — a rootless parasite that latches onto tomato roots and can...
Tomatoes are notoriously thirsty plants, and understanding how they can be bred to handle dry spells means homegrown tomatoes...
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The heirloom tomatoes you grow from saved seed or find at the farmers market have never had the benefit of modern crop...
Those tiny pale stipples appearing on the undersides of your tomato leaves in July are spider mites that may already be immune...
When a tomato on your vine shifts from green to deep orange as it ripens, a single protein is choreographing that entire...
Every tomato you've ever grown from seed carries hidden drought-survival switches — and researchers just found nearly 270 of...
The sulforaphane in your garden broccoli and kale is now showing up in lab studies as a molecular brake on the exact runaway...
Every cutting you press into damp soil is racing to rebuild an egg-shaped cellular command center before it dries out — and...
Imagine knowing your tomato plants are stressed by salt buildup days before the leaves start wilting — this sensor technology...
If you grow eggplant or other nightshades and your neighbors spray pesticides that drift into your garden, natural compounds...
If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with the leaves, a tool like this...
A tablespoon of the right microbial mix stirred into your tomato transplant hole could be the difference between a shriveled...
Tomato breeders working to create cuttings that root faster — or backyard gardeners frustrated by finicky tomato propagation —...
Tomato seedlings on your windowsill are racing to germinate before their stored energy runs out — and this research reveals...
The potato in your garden likely carries four copies of every gene — meaning breeders have to knock out all four to change a...
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Soil bacteria like this one could be the living amendment that finally lets vegetable gardeners break the cycle of replanting...
The potatoes on your plate and the tomatoes in your garden know when to flower and form tubers because of a molecular signal...
Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes you grow could soon be edited for disease resistance or better yields using a virus that...
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Salt-tolerant wild plants have tiny surface structures that actively filter salt out of their tissues, and understanding how...
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Understanding how plants 'listen' to helpful fungi could soon lead to crops that need fewer pesticides and survive drought...
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