wild eggplant

plural wild eggplants

1. A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.

   A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012).

   2016, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Debmalya Barh, Applied Molecular Biotechnology: The Next Generation of Genetic Engineering, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 70

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   It feeds normally on the so called wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, and it is on this plant that it is able to survive during the intervals between crops, [...]

   1917, R. T. Cotton, “The eggplant Lace-Bug in Porto Rico”, in Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, page 23

   the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn., and S. pyraconthum Jacq.

   1918, I. C. Jagger, V. B. Stewart, “Some Verticillium Diseases”, in Phytopathology, page 18

   Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.

   1933, George Norton Wolcott, An Economic Entomology of the West Indies

   […] 2 cups coconut milk 1/4 cup small to medium-size prawns, shelled Salt 1 cup wild eggplant (terung pipit or Solanum torvum) 2 red chillies 1/2 cup grated coconut, roasted […]

   2009, Coconut recipes from around the world, Bioversity International, →ISBN, page 225

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)

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   From China, eggplant may have migrated to Japan, where it was one of the five most important vegetables. Another hypothesis holds that the people of India were the first to eat eggplant. Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ. Having originated in India, according to this hypothesis, eggplant migrated to China and then to Arabia in the fourth century CE.

   2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 387

   Synonyms: gully bean, turkey berry, susumber, pea eggplant, terung pipit