Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 53, No. 377, pp. 2001-2022,
October 1, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Tobacco to tomatoes: a phylogenetic perspective on fruit diversity in the Solanaceae
Received 26 March 2002; Accepted 2 July 2002
Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
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The Solanaceae contains many species of agricultural importance. Several of these are cultivated for their fruits, such as the tomato, the pepper and the aubergine. The family is very diverse in fruit type with capsules, drupes, pyrenes, berries, and several sorts of dehiscent non-capsular fruits occurring in the 90+ genera. In this paper, recent work on fruit type evolution in angiosperms is reviewed in relation to dispersal agents and habitat ecology. Defining fruit types in the Solanaceae in a simple five state system, then mapping them onto a previously published molecular phylogeny based on chloroplast DNA allows discussion of the evolution of these fruit types in a phylogenetic framework. Capsules are plesiomorphic in the family, and although berries are a synapomorphy (shared derived character) for a large clade including the genus Solanum (tomatoes and aubergines), they have arisen several times in the family as a whole. Problems with homology of drupes and pyrenes are discussed, and areas for future investigation of fruit structure homology identified. The distribution of fruit types in the large and diverse genus Solanum is also discussed in the light of monophyletic groups identified using chloroplast gene sequences. This variety is related to recent advances in the understanding of the molecular biology of fruit development. Finally, several key areas of future comparative, phylogenetic investigation into fruit type evolution in the family are highlighted.
Key words: Key words: Dehiscence, diversity, fruit type, morphology, phylogeny, seed dispersal, Solanaceae, tobacco, tomato.
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