Phenotyping Local Eggplant Varieties: Commitment to Biodiversity and Nutritional Quality Preservation.

ABSTRACT: Given the little variability among commercialised eggplants mainly in developed countries, exploring, and structuring of traditional varieties germplasm collections have become a key element for extending ecotypes and promoting biodiversity preservation and consumption. Thirty-one eggplant landraces from Spain were characterised with 22 quantitative and 14 qualitative conventional morphological descriptors. Landraces were grouped based on their fruit skin colour (black-purple, striped, white, and reddish). Landraces B7, B20, and B24 were left out for their distinctive fruit characteristics. Wide variation for plant, leaf, flower, and fruit phenology traits was observed across the local landraces, and fruit descriptors were considered the most important ones. In a second experiment, landrac

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Ispizua E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8281111 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature