Figure 1.

Schematic representation of taxonomic relationships between the cultivated brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena) and other cultivated (scarlet eggplant, S. aethiopicum; and gboma eggplant, S. macrocarpon) and wild relatives from the genus Solanum based on Nee (1999), Levin et al. (2006), Weese and Bohs (2010), Stern et al. (2011), Knapp et al. (2013), Syfert et al. (2016), and Vorontsova and Knapp (2016). For each of the species and groups it is indicated if they are part of the primary (GP1), secondary (GP2), or tertiary (GP3) brinjal eggplant genepools. The three cultivated species are indicated with an asterisk.