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News: A new species of wild brinjal Solanum Pandeyi, has been discovered from one of the remote islands of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago by a scientist from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).
About Solanum Pandeyi
- It is a new species of wild brinjal recorded in the evergreen forest of the Middle Andaman.
- It was found growing in the open along the forest edges and was locally known as wild orange eggplant.
- Genus: It is similar to Solanum lasiocarpum and belongs to the Leptostemonum clade of Solanum.
- Uses: The plant was used by a Negrito tribe, the Great Andamanese, for food and medicinal purposes.
- Most seeds and roots are used to treat tooth infections.
- Ripe fruit with jaggery, chilli, garlic, ginger, and salt are used to make sour–sweet sauce by the Ranchi and Bengali settler community of the island.
- In future, it might be a choice of genetic base for plant breeders to develop high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties.
