Genetic data stored in genebanks confirm that pepper, thanks to its flexible features (easily preserved and transportable in dried form, needed in moderate quantity to enrich dishes, easy to produce ...

The bell pepper market class under which the peppers are sold in the U.S. only includes a species known as Capsicum annuum. The coloring of some C. annuum varieties may be influenced by their maturity ...

Without the process of domestication, humans would still be hunters and gatherers, and modern civilization would look very different. Fortunately, for all of us who do not relish the thought of ...

The study of crop origins has traditionally involved identifying geographic areas of high morphological diversity, sampling populations of wild progenitor species, and the archaeological retrieval of ...

In the world’s plant gene banks, scientists studied how so many varieties of the humble capsicum worked their way onto our plates. By Veronique Greenwood Peppers are cosmopolitan, a vegetable that ...

The effects of the Columbian exchange on economic and culinary history have always been of great interest to researchers. Chilli, also called “red pepper”, was an important crop in India and was grown ...

They have myriad shapes, flavors, colors and levels of spiciness, but all American chilies, chili peppers and bell peppers emerged from a single species that later led to three lineages. Found in ...

Used in processed foods and cosmetics, the red pigments in Capsicum (chile pepper) are important sources of non-toxic red dyes. The common method for extracting pigments from dried Capsicum uses ...

Genebanks collect vast collections of plants and detailed passport information, with the aim of preserving genetic diversity for conservation and breeding. Genetic characterisation of such collections ...