Bacterial wilt (causal organism-Ralstonia solanacearum) is one of the most important soil-borne diseases of eggplant (Solanum melongena) worldwide. The best way to control it economically is to develop cultivars resistant to this soil-borne pathogen. Resistance gene (R-gene) cloning and sequencing to obtain resistance gene analogs (RGAs) is one of the most recent approaches for obtaining disea…