Show notes
It’s our belated easter episode! We talk about the Queen of Vegetables, the mighty eggplant. We filled almost an hour with eggplant facts, factoids and words that merely resemble a fact from a distance.
- Why is Eggplant a Berry? (ANSWERED)
- Delphinidin – Wikipedia
- Antioxidant activity of nasunin, an anthocyanin in eggplant peels – ScienceDirect.
- Scrapped but not neglected: Insights into the composition, molecular modulation and antioxidant capacity of phenols in peel of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) fruits at different developmental stages
- Value-Added Lager Beer Enriched with Eggplant ( Solanum melongena L.) Peel Extract
- Utilization of food processing wastes of eggplant as a high potential pectin source and characterization of extracted pectin – ScienceDirect (Pectin source)
- Micro- and nano-structures of cellulose from eggplant plant (Solanum melongena L) agricultural residue – ScienceDirect
- Why is an Eggplant Called That? (ANSWERED)
- File:Eggplant with chicken eggs.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
- YPS Fanpage: Gimmicks: Der Ostereierbaum
- Eggplants Contain Nicotine | Office for Science and Society – McGill University
- This Eggplant Parm at Scalini’s Restaurant in Atlanta Is Famous for Inducing Labor | Bon Appétit
- He–Ne laser accelerates seed germination by modulating growth hormones and reprogramming metabolism in brinjal | Scientific Reports
- Ask The Editors: Is Raw Eggplant Poisonous? | HuffPost Life
- About the Nagoya Protocol
- Genetically modified brinjal – Wikipedia
- Successful Commercialization of Insect-Resistant Eggplant by a Public–Private Partnership: Reaching and Benefiting Resource-Poor Farmers
- Whose germplasm is it?
- The Impacts of GM Foods: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Bt Eggplant in Bangladesh – Ahmed – 2021 – American Journal of Agricultural Economics – Wiley Online Library
- Plastid transformation in eggplant
- A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly reveals genetics for important traits in eggplan
- Genetic engineering of eggplant accumulating β-carotene in fruit
- Plastid transformation in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)
- A high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly reveals genetics for important traits in eggplant
- Genetic Engineering of Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.): Progress, Controversy and Potential
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Until next time!