Eggplant origins: out of Africa, into the orient.

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African spiny Solanum (subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle (2013, methodology): “The eggplant clade was defined by Weese & Bohs (2010), and all the species they included are also part of this clade here.”
Interspecific Hybridization between Eggplant and Wild Relatives from Different Genepools (2016, background): “The secondary genepool is made up of a group of African and Southeast Asian ‘‘spiny’’ species of Solanum (Vorontsova et al., 2013; Weese and Bohs, 2010), which yield hybrids with different degrees of fertility when they are hybridized with eggplant (Daunay and Hazra, 2012; Rotino et al., 2014).”