The team of Hiroyuki FUKUOKA at NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, solved 833 Mb or74 % of the whole genome, from which some 85.000 genes could be predicted.
NARO press release, Sept. 19, 2014
NARO and Kazusa DNA Research Institute jointly present draft genome sequence of eggplant (Solanum melogena L)