Solanum nigrum L.
(Black Nightshade)

Interactions where Solanum nigrum is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		is foodplant of larva			Pria dulcamarae	a pollen or sap beetle	Coleoptera: Nitidulidae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Nitidulidae/Pria dulcamarae/	Pria dulcamarae	a pollen or sap beetle				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade								larva feeds on
fruit		fruit is mined by larva			Tuta absoluta	Tomato Leaf Miner, South American Tomato Moth	Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae	Pest Risk Analysis for Tuta absoluta, Tomato Leaf Miner Moth or South American Tomato Moth, Potting, R., 2009	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Gelechiidae/Tuta absoluta/	Tuta absoluta	tomato leaf miner, South American tomato moth				larva	Foodplant / miner		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade			fruit					larva mines fruit
leaf		leaf is mined by larva			Tuta absoluta	Tomato Leaf Miner, South American Tomato Moth	Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae	Pest Risk Analysis for Tuta absoluta, Tomato Leaf Miner Moth or South American Tomato Moth, Potting, R., 2009	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Gelechiidae/Tuta absoluta/	Tuta absoluta	tomato leaf miner, South American tomato moth				larva	Foodplant / miner		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade			leaf					larva mines leaf
leaf		leaf may be infected and damaged by hypophyllous sporangium			Peronospora tabacina	Tobacco Blue Mould	Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae	Peronospora hyoscyami f.sp. tabacina, Hall, G., 1980	/Chromista/Oomycota/Peronosporea/Peronosporales/Peronosporaceae/Peronospora tabacina/	Peronospora tabacina	tobacco blue mould		hypophyllous		sporangium	Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade			leaf					hypophyllous sporangium infects and damages leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is galled by			Aceria kuko	Goji Gall Mite	Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae	Goji gall mite, Anon., 2009	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Trombidiformes/Eriophyidae/Aceria kuko/	Aceria kuko	goji gall mite					Foodplant / gall			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade		live	leaf					causes gall of live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph			Septoria lycopersici	Tomato Leaf Spot - causative organism	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Septoria lycopersici Speg., Sutton, B.C. & Waterston, J.M., 1964	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Septoria lycopersici/	Septoria lycopersici	tomato leaf spot (causative organism)			pycnidium	Phoma coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade		live	leaf					pycnidium of Phoma coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf has leaves shot holed by epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph			Ascochyta solanicola	a coelomycete	Pleosporales	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Ascochyta solanicola/	Ascochyta solanicola	a coelomycete		epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore	pycnidium	Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / shot hole causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade		live	leaf					epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph causes shot holes on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph			Ascochyta solanicola	a coelomycete	Pleosporales	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia, Grove, W.B., 1935	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Ascochyta solanicola/	Ascochyta solanicola	a coelomycete		epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore	pycnidium	Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade		live	leaf					epiphyllous, scattered, clear-brown with concolourour pore pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
leaf (live)		live leaf is spotted by Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph			Alternaria solani	Potato and Tomato Early Blight - causative organism, Early Potato Blight	Pleosporales: Pleosporaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Pleosporales/Pleosporaceae/Alternaria solani/	Alternaria solani	potato and tomato early blight (causative organism), early potato blight				Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph	Foodplant / spot causer			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade		live	leaf					Alternaria dematiaceous anamorph causes spots on live leaf
stem		stem is mined by larva			Tuta absoluta	Tomato Leaf Miner, South American Tomato Moth	Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae	Pest Risk Analysis for Tuta absoluta, Tomato Leaf Miner Moth or South American Tomato Moth, Potting, R., 2009	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Gelechiidae/Tuta absoluta/	Tuta absoluta	tomato leaf miner, South American tomato moth				larva	Foodplant / miner		Foreign	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Solanales/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum/	Solanum nigrum	black nightshade			stem					larva mines stem

Author & Year	Title	Source
Anon., 2009	Goji gall mite	Plant Clinic News Jan 09: 1.
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Grove, W.B., 1935	British Stem- and Leaf- Fungi: Coelomycetes Vol. I … Sphaeropsidales with hyaline conidia	Vol I, 488pp, Cambridge University Press
Hall, G., 1980	Peronospora hyoscyami f.sp. tabacina	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 975.
Potting, R., 2009	Pest Risk Analysis for Tuta absoluta, Tomato Leaf Miner Moth or South American Tomato Moth	PRAs for consultation on pest risk management PRAs for consultation on pest risk management.
Sutton, B.C. & Waterston, J.M., 1964	Septoria lycopersici Speg.	I.M.I. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria CMI Descriptions of Pathenogenic Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 89.

Solanum nigrum (Black Nightshade) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Solanum
(a genus of nightshades)

SOLANACEAE
(nightshades)

EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Herbaceous Plants
(herbaceous plants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Solanum nigrum (Black Nightshade)
Genus	Solanum (a genus of nightshades)
Family	SOLANACEAE (nightshades)
Order	SOLANALES (bindweeds and nightshades)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Solanum nigrum is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Solanaceae)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Solanum nigrum (Black Nightshade)

Solanum nigrum (Black Nightshade) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Solanum nigrum (Black Nightshade):

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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