Solanum bulbocastanum

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

Solanum bulbocastanum, the ornamental nightshade,^[1] is a plant in the Solanaceae family, 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.

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.

• Gene RB cloned from Solanum bulbocastanum confers broad spectrum resistance to potato late blight, Junqi Song et al., PNAS 2003

External links

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