An international research team has produced the first complete eggplant pan-genome and pan-phenome, published in Nature Communications. By analysing 3,400 varieties and 368 key accessions, scientists traced eggplant’s origins to India and Southeast Asia and identified thousands of gene–trait associations. The findings reshape domestication history and unlock new opportunities for precision breeding, disease resistance and future cultivar innovation.
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