Common eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), also known as aubergine, brinjal eggplant or eggplant, is a warm season crop mainly cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates. Brinjal eggplant and S. melongena will be used interchangeably in this report. Two other cultivated eggplant species, scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.) and gboma eggplant (Solanum macrocarpon L.), have local importan…