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25 unusual facts about Solanaceae


Anatabine

Anatabine (uh-nat-uh-been,-bin) is one of the minor alkaloids found in plants in the Solanaceae family, which includes the tobacco plant and tomato, that has been shown to affect monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity.

Armando Theodoro Hunziker

He had specialized in the study of systems biology of the Solanaceae family, having contributed with a large number of investigations and publications.

Bean calico mosaic virus

Bean calico mosaic virus (BCaMV or BCMoV) is a plant virus transmitted by whiteflies that infects bean genera and species within the families Fabaceae, Malvaceae, and Solanaceae.

Carboxypeptidase A inhibitor

The N-terminal region and the mature inhibitor are weakly related to other solananaceous proteins found in this family, from potato, tomato and henbane, which have been incorrectly described as metallocarboxypeptidase inhibitors.

Chickpea bushy dwarf virus

Their researched indicated that the virus was sap-transmissible to 14 species of Chenopodiaceae, Leguminosae, Solanaceae and Malvaceae.

Circaea

Enchanter's nightshade is not related to the nightshade family that includes deadly nightshade and the Solanum genus (the Solanaceae).

Cuscohygrine

It can also be extracted from plants of the family Solanaceae as well, including Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Datura inoxia and Datura stramonium (jimson weed).

Donnatal

The latter three ingredients being found in plants of the Solanaceae family.

Globodera rostochiensis

The golden nematode negatively affects plants of the family Solanaceae by forming cysts on the roots of susceptible species.

Globodera tabacum

Globodera tabacum, commonly known as a tobacco cyst nematode, is a plant parasitic nematode that mainly infests the tobacco plant, but also plants in Solanaceae family.

Greta morgane

The caterpillar uses plants from the deadly nightshade family (Solanaceae) as hosts.

Heliothis punctifera

The larvae feed on Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Solanaceae species, but also on a number of agricultural crops.

Hyoscyamine

Hyoscyamine can be extracted from plants of the Solanaceae family, notably Datura stramonium.

Macrobiotic diet

Nightshade vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant; also spinach, beets and avocados are not recommended or used sparingly in macrobiotic cooking, as they are considered extremely yin.

Nicotiana rustica

Nicotiana rustica, known in South America as mapacho and in Vietnam as thuoc lao (thuốc lào), is a plant in the Solanaceae family.

Pomato

The pomato (or tomtato) is a hybrid or chimera produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant, both of which are members of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.

Sceliodes cordalis

The larvae are considered an agricultural pest on several Solanaceae species, such as Lycopersicum esculentum, Physalis edulis, Solanum aviculare, Solanum melongena and Datura species.

Solanum cowiei

Solanum cowiei is a small fruiting subshrub in the family Solanaceae.

Solanum douglasii

Solanum douglasii is a species of nightshade known by the common name greenspot nightshade.

Solanum glaucophyllum

Solanum glaucophyllum is a species of the family Solanaceae.

Solasodamine

Solasodamine is a poisonous tetrasaccharide chemical compound of solasodine that occurs in plants of the Solanaceae family.

Solauricine

Solauricine is a poisonous glycoalkaloid chemical compound that occurs in plants of the Solanaceae family.

Tobacco mosaic virus

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus that infects plants, especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae.

Tomato mosaic virus

Besides Solanaceous plants, ToMV affects a wide range of other crop and ornamental plants.

Tropane alkaloid

Tropane alkaloids occur naturally in many members of the plant family Solanaceae.


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Alternaria solani

The life cycle starts with the fungus overwintering in crop residues or wild members of the Solanaceae family, such as black nightshade.

Franz Kohaut

The plant genus "Kohautia" from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor, as well as the species "Tetrapteris kohauti" Sieber ex Presl (Malpighiaceae) and "Cestrum kohauti" Bercht. & J.Presl (Solanaceae).

Greta oto

oto visits common flowers like lantana, but prefers to lay its eggs on plants of the tropical Solanaceae genus Cestrum.

Physalis pubescens

Physalis pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by many common names, including husk tomato and hairy groundcherry in English, and muyaca and capulí in Spanish.

Physalis viscosa

Physalis viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by many common names, including starhair groundcherry and grape groundcherry in English, and arrebenta-cavalo, balãozinho, and camambú in Portuguese.

Solanum carolinense

Solanum carolinense, Carolina horsenettle is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family.

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston

A memorial to physician and botanist Dr. William Withering, who pioneered the medical use of digitalis (derived from the foxglove), is situated on the south wall of the Lady Chapel, and features carvings of foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae, a plant named in his honour.

Tread softly

Solanum carolinense (Carolina Horsenettle), a plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae)