David E. Alonso

This study identifies anthropic and environmental selective events during eggplant domestication using genome-wide association and genotype-environment association analyses.

The paper investigates convergent evolution of plant prickles, finding that mutations in a cytokinin gene repeatedly cause prickle loss across species.

The paper identifies mutations in SmAPRR2 as key drivers of chlorophyll loss in eggplant fruit peel, revealing independent evolutionary origins of this trait.