茄子(学名:Solanum melongena L.),茄科茄属植物,重要的夏季蔬菜。它起源于亚洲东南热带地区古印度一带,由一种野生茄科植物丁茄驯化而来。茄子的野生种果实型小而味苦,颜色呈黄色或白色,似一个禽蛋,因此在英语里茄子的单词为eggplant。后来经过长期驯化和栽培,果实变大,风味改善,并逐步传播到世界各地。在中国,茄子已有2 000多年的栽培历史,被看作是茄子的第二起源地。今天,茄子在亚洲栽培数量最多,中国依然是茄子生产大国,收获 Eggplant (scientific name: Solanum melongena L.), Solanaceae solanum, an important summer vegetable. It originated in tropical India southeastern tropics in the region, from a wild solanaceae Ding domesticated from. The eggplant wild fruit is small and bitter, yellow or white in color, resembling an egg, so the word eggplant in English is eggplant. After a long period of domestication and cultivation, the fruit became larger, the flavor improved, and gradually spread all over the world. In China, eggplant has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years and is regarded as the second source of eggplant. Today, the largest number of eggplant cultivation in Asia, China is still a large eggplant production, harvest