A new family tree of the plant genus Solanum helps explain the striking diversity of their fruit color and size. This genus includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and other economically important ...
Why reach for synthetic fertilizers when you have the makings of a tomato-boosting concoction on your countertop? Turn these ...
The Sodom apple has overrun vast swaths of East African savanna and pastureland. Not a true apple, the Sodom apple is a relative of the eggplant that smothers native grasses with its thorny stalks.
The Solanum genus, renowned for its traditional medicinal use, harbours a range of steroidal glycoalkaloids that have emerged as promising antitumour agents. These compounds, isolated from plants such ...
When you're growing your tomato plants during the summer, you might notice some with curling leaves. Here's why that happens and how to stop it.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on ...