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 ...
Evidence of the advantages of Solanum nigrum L.for the treatment of ulcerative colitis is accumulating.However,research revealing the treatment of Solanum diphyllum L.against ulcerative colitis is scarce.In this study...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32301896,31991181);the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(2021B0301030004);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(CAAS-ZDRW202404);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2023M733834).
Tomato(Solanum lycopersicum)and potato(Solanum tuberosum),two integral crops within the nightshade family,are crucial sources of nutrients and serve as staple foods worldwide.Molecular genetic studies have significant...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF1002500);the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research(2021B0301030004);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2002204,31970586,and 32170662);the Yunnan Fundamental Research Project(202401AS070131).
Dear Editor,The potato is the most important tuber crop,playing an important role in ensuring world food security.The genome of the cultivated species(DM,a doubled monoploid type)was first released in 2011 and has bee...
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...
the Rural&Environment Science&Analytical Services(RESAS)Division of the Scottish Government(JHI-B1-1);the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council(BBSRC,BB/S015663/1);the Royal Society(NAF\R1\201061);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32061130211,32372558);AK was supported through a Research Leaders 2025 fellowship funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement(754380);The authors acknowledge the Research/Scientific Computing teams at The James Hutton Institute and NIAB for providing computational resources and technical support for the‘‘UK’s Crop Diversity Bioinformatics HPC”(BBSRC Grant BB/S019669/1),use of which has contributed to the results reported within this paper.
More than 170 years after causing the potato famine in Ireland,late blight is still considered one of the most devastating crop diseases.Commercial potato breeding efforts depend on natural sources of resistance to pr...