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Egg plant (Solanum melongena L.), also known as brinjal is probably a native of southern Asia, while in general the genus Solanum is predominant in the New World. There are Sanskrit names for it in a book that was probably written in between the 3rd century B. C. and the 3rd century A. D. (Kahn 1979). Its cultivation was known in the area ranging from China to Persia by the 5th century, and it was not known in Europe until the 13th century (Hedrick 1972).
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Hinata, K. (1986). Egg Plant (Solanum melongena L.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Crops I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61625-9_19
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