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Moreover, lines of S. melongena showed a variable ability to cross with a<br />

given wild species, and successful crosses may depend on one-way incompatibility<br />

(Rao, 1979). The partial sterility of interspecific hybrids of S. melongna with other<br />

Solanum species may be linked to self-incompatilbility problems brought by the wild<br />

parent, and not by the S. melongena being self-compatible (Daunay et al., 1991). Self<br />

-incompatibility in the family Solanaceae is gametophytic and mainly controlled by<br />

muti-allelic S-locus (Franklin et al., 1995).<br />

Therefore, understanding the germplasm diversity presented in Solanum<br />

species may bring valuable information for S. melongena breeding programs and<br />

determine diversity and relationships among S. melongena and its wild relatives.<br />

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