| Abstract: | Twelve wild Solanum accessions were tested in a glasshouse at the seedling stage for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melongenae, the causal agent of fusarium wilt of aubergine. Four isolates of the fungus (three Turkish and one Italian) were used. Solanum incanum and S. linneanum were highly susceptible, whereas S. sisymbrifolium, S. torvum and S. aethiopicum Gilo group (one accession) were resistant. In Solanum aethiopicum Aculeatum (two accessions), S. aethiopicum Gilo, S. viarum and S. macrocarpon there were both resistant and susceptible individuals. The sources of resistance found in these wild Solanum spp. could be conveniently used to breed aubergine cultivars resistant to fusarium wilt. |
