Solanum bulbocastanum

Solanum bulbocastanum, the ornamental nightshade,[1] is a plant in the family Solanaceae, native to Mexico and parts of the U.S. Southwest. It is closely related to the potato and, as it has evolved strong resistance to all known varieties of potato blight, has been used to genetically engineer resistance into the cultivated varieties of potatoes around the world. The use of genetic engineering is helpful, as efforts to hybridize by traditional methods have so far been unsuccessful, and the use of somatic hybridization to transfer genes is difficult. A resistance to the Columbia root-knot nematode Meloidogyne chitwoodi has been identified in S. bulbocastanum,[2] which can be transferred to cultivated potato.

Solanum bulbocastanum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Solanaceae
Genus:	Solanum
Species:	S. bulbocastanum
Binomial name
Solanum bulbocastanum Dunal

References

1. "Solanum bulbocastanum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
2. Zhang, Linhai. "Marker-Assisted Selection of Columbia Root-Knot Nematode Resistance Introgressed from". Crop Science. 47 (5). doi:10.2135/cropsci2007.01.0003.

• Song J, Bradeen JM, Naess SK, Raasch JA, Wielgus SM, Haberlach GT, Liu J, Kuang H, Austin-Phillips S, Buell CR, Helgeson JP, Jiang J (2003). "Gene RB cloned from Solanum bulbocastanum confers broad spectrum resistance to potato late blight". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (16): 9128–33. doi:10.1073/pnas.1533501100. PMC 170883. PMID 12872003.
• Zhang, L.-H.; Mojtahedi, H.; Kuang, H.; Baker, B.; Brown, C.R. (2007). "Marker-Assisted Selection of Columbia Root-Knot Nematode Resistance Introgressed from Solanum bulbocastanum". Crop Science. 47 (5): 2021–6. doi:10.2135/cropsci2007.01.0003.

External links

• Solanum bulbocastanum Dunal on Solanaceae Source — Images, description, specimens and a full list of scientific synonyms.