Question

Who discovered brinjal and when

Answer 1

Eggplant or aubergine, is a species of nightshade grown for its edible fruit. Eggplant is the common name in North America and Australia, but British English uses aubergine. It is known in South Asia, Southeast Asia and South Africa as brinjal.
The first known written record of the plant is found in Qimin Yaoshu , an ancient Chinese agricultural treatise completed in 544.