Solanaceae Source aims to provide a worldwide taxonomic monograph of the nightshade family whose species that are used as food (potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants), medicines (henbane and deadly nightshades) and in horticulture (petunias). We began this journey with the on-line monograph of all species in the mega-diverse genus Solanum. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Solanum project as part of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventories (PBI) mission.
We added names for all members of the family to the resource with the collaboration of the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), and are working through these with the help of the Solanaceae community worldwide. This will contribute to diverse projects such as the World Flora On-Line that is contributing the the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
The website and database behind it are constantly being updated and improved - we hope you will bear with us as we both improve the site and the data that underpin it. Synonymy may not be perfectly up to date, and some new species may have not been added yet.
We are all disappointed not to be meeting together in Greece this year, but fear not, the community is still planning to meet at SOL International Online from 9 to 11 November.
Brazilian specimens of the Solanaceae Source database became available today through SpeciesLink, Brazil's major biodiversity data portal. A total of 1,466 specimens of Solanaceae from the Natural History Museum London (BM) are now available within SpeciesLink searches, integrating the specialist database for the nightshade family with Brazil's digitally available collection data.
New species are not only found in the back of beyond - solanum gurus Lynn Bohs and Stephen Stern together with Jeff Keeling of Sul Ross State University have just described Solanum cordicitum from Valentine, Texas - proving that botanists ha
Next SOL Seminar Online will be presented by Gabriela Doria on Petal cell shape and flower-pollinator interaction in Nicotiana (Solanaceae)
Next SOL Seminar Online will be presented by Corri Hamilton on Xylem sap from wilt-resistant tomato inhibits growth of the pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum
Next SOL Seminar Online will be presented by Lynn Bohs on Spicy Solanaceae potpourri: an update on recent and current projects
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