Their findings, as their Science Advances study explains, points to a “complex epigenetic and genetic network” of transformations that allow humans and many animals to eat tomatoes without fear.

Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

Also commonly known as dwale, death cherries, and devil’s berries, belladonna is a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family. Solanaceae contains about 2,700 species across 98 genera.

Some diseases, which affect potatoes, also infect other plants in the Solanaceae family, such as tomato, pepper and eggplant.

I am a specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and have spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants. My particular focus of research is the ...