Solanum L. (Solanaceae) is distributed mainly throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world and is the largest and most complex genus of the family Solanaceae. In Brazil, Solanum is represented by about 350 species. In this region, many species of Solanum are widely used in popular medicine and are commonly known as ‘yubeba’, the word derived from Tupi Guarani that refers to the ...

This paper reports the results of chemical analyses performed on two distinct groups of new potato genotypes. The first group contained five clones transformed with the gene ech42 encoding for an endochitinase. The second included 21 interspecific hybrids between the cultivated potato Solanum tuberosum and the wild species S. commersonii, obtained either by somatic fusion or by sexual hybridiza...

Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are specialized metabolites found in members of Solanum species, and also known as toxic substances food crops such tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato tuberosum), eggplant melongena). SGA biosynthesis can be divided into two main parts: formation steroidal aglycones, which derived from cholesterol, glycosylation at the C-3 hydroxy group. This review focuses on...

Background: Exposure of potato tubers to light causes accumulation of glycioalkaloids in the tubers and overdose of glycoalkaoids are associated with some toxicity. This study aims to investigate the effect of consuming sunlight exposed tubers of Irish potato on some selected tissues of rats. Methods: Freshly harvested tubers of Solnum tuberosum were purchased from a farmland and were randomly ...