The Lat-SOL initiative is an international and integrative research network of partner laboratories of Latin America working in Solanaceaes research.

This plant family includes about 95 genera and 2,400 species. Most are tropical, but the family is also present in temperate regions of the planet. Solanaceae is well represented in South America with the greatest diversity in the western areas, and many groups are restricted to temperate parts of the continent. Many genera and species extend from South America into Central America and southern Mexico. Solanum is one of the largest and most widespread of flowering plant genera with more than 1,000 species.

The network visions the integration in three different ways:

- Facilitate communication and collaboration between scientists working in basic and applied aspects of Solanaceous plant species.

- Involve scientists from different research fields and nationalities and with different perspectives of the scientific problem in Solanaceae research.

- Integrate this initiative as a node of the already existing programs: SOL and EU-SOL.