Extensive transcriptome changes underlying the fruit skin color intensity variation in purple eggplant

Zhou, Xiaohui; Liu, Songyu; Liu, Yaping; Li, Jun; Yang, Yan; Wang, Dan; Zhuang, Yun

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-17372/v1

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“…Eggplant ( Solanum melongena L.) is the third-most important crop in the Solanaceae in terms of the harvested area and yield ( Dou et al., 2022 ). Eggplant is a popular vegetable crop that is grown and consumed worldwide ( Toppino et al., 2020 ; Zhou et al., 2021 ), and produces fruit of high nutritional value. The fruit contain essential nutrients for human health, such as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, as well as bioactive compounds ( Nisha et al., 2009 ; Karimi et al., 2021 ).…”

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Optimizing water and nitrogen management strategies to improve their use efficiency, eggplant yield and fruit quality

Zhou,

Zhang,

et al. 2023

Front. Plant Sci.

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With improvement in living standards, consumer preferences for vegetables are changing from quantity- to quality-oriented. Water and nitrogen supply, as two major determinants of vegetable crop yield and quality, can be optimally managed to improve the yield and quality. To evaluate the response in yield, fruit quality, and water and nitrogen utilization of eggplant to different water and nitrogen management strategies, a 2-year (2021 and 2022) field trial under mulched drip irrigation was conducted. The growth period was divided into seedling, flowering and fruit set, fruit development, and fruit ripening stages. Three irrigation levels were applied during the flowering and fruit set stage: W0, adequate water supply (70%–80% of field water capacity, FC); W1, mild water deficit (60%–70% FC); and W2, moderate water deficit (50%–60% FC). In addition, three nitrogen application rates were applied: N1, low nitrogen level (215 kg ha−1); N2, medium nitrogen level (270 kg ha−1); and N3, high nitrogen level (325 kg ha−1). The irrigation and nitrogen rates were applied in all combinations (i.e., nine treatments in total). Adequate water supply throughout the reproductive period in combination with no nitrogen application served as the control (CK). The yield of the W1N2 treatment was significantly increased by 32.62% and 35.06% in 2021 and 2022, respectively, compared with that of the CK. Fruit soluble protein, soluble solids, and vitamin C contents were significantly higher under W1 than W2. Fruit quality was significantly higher under the N2 rate compared with the other nitrogen rates. The W1N2 treatment showed the highest water productivity, with a significant increase of 11.27%–37.84% (2021) and 14.71%–42.48% (2022) compared with that under the other treatments. Based on the average water-deficit degree and nitrogen application rate, W0 and N1 had the highest partial factor productivity of nitrogen. Assessment of the results using the TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution) method indicated that mild water deficit in combination with the medium nitrogen application rate (W1N2) was the optimal water and nitrogen management strategy for cultivated eggplant. The present findings contribute novel insights into the sustainable cultivation of eggplant in an oasis arid environment.

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