Assessment of Genetic, Morphological and Agronomical Diversity Among Jordanian Eggplant (Solanum Melongena L.) Landraces Using Random Amplified Polymorphic Dna (Rapd)

Genetic Diversity and Utilization of Cultivated Eggplant Germplasm in Varietal Improvement

“…Similarly, chloroplast DNA analysis of S. melongena and related species using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) revealed that taxonomic relationships based on morphological characters are, to a certain extent, unreliable [ 54 ]. However, similar clustering patterns have been obtained from both phenotypic data and molecular data (RAPD and AFLP markers) in comparative analyses of eggplant accessions (landraces, cultivars, and wild types) [ 42 , 55 ].…”

“…Similarly, Mao et al [ 40 ] reported close to 2000 eggplant genotypes in China by the Institute of Vegetable Crops, IVC, Nanjing and Hangshu; The National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, NIAS, Tsukuba in Japan had 31 accessions of S. aethiopicum and 561 of S. melongena ; The Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, Russia recorded 238 accessions of S. melongena [ 41 ]; and the National Gene Bank of China (NGBC) had 1300 accessions of S. melongena . There are some reports of collected germplasm resources in the Middle East [ 42 ], Southeast Asia [ 43 ], Africa [ 44 ], and Indonesia [ 45 ]. A more comprehensive database of eggplant-related germplasm estimating around 6000 accessions of S. melongena, S. aethiopicum, and S. macrocarpon was compiled by the Eggplant Genetic Resources Network (EGGNET project) in Europe project, a network of private and public sector researchers from the UK, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, and the Netherlands.…”