funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32100213);the Project of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City(SCKJ-JYRC-2023-18);the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(222RC553,323RC423);the Hainan University Collaborative Innovation Center of Nanfan and High-Efficiency Tropical Agriculture(XTCX2022NYC09);the Hainan University Startup Fund(RZ2100003223).
Solanaceae plants produce two major classes of valuable steroid-derived specialized metabolites:steroidal glycoalkaloids(SGAs)and steroidal saponins(STSs)(Grzech et al.,2025).SGAs are crucial in plant defense despite ...
the Fulbright Us Student Program,which is sponsored by The US Department of State and the German-American Fulbright Commission.We thank Prof.M.Court for UGT nomenclature assignment.N.benthamiana and green unripe and purple ripe S.nigrum berries used in the main and supplementary figures were generated in BioRender.We kindly acknowledge the Max Planck Society and the European Research Council(788301)for funding.
Steroidal glycoalkaloids(SGAs)are specialized metabolites produced by hundreds of Solanum species,including important vegetable crops such as tomato,potato,and eggplant.Although it has been known that SGAs play import...