Pepper cultivars vary in both their immature and mature fruit color, but all peppers undergo a color change when their seeds ripen. The seeds of large-fruited peppers are easily extracted simply by ...

A newly released small-fruited Capsicum annuum L. pepper contains high concentrations of capsiate and dihydrocapsiate in both immature and mature fruit. The release will provide researchers and plant ...

How do you choose which bell pepper color to pick up at the grocery store? Not only do the different shades have varying ...

Chili peppers reign as the world's most widely cultivated spice crop; farmers grow them in bulk, and self-described chili-heads breed ever-spicier varieties of the fruit. But before they conquered ...

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 ...

Dear Jane: I want to cross-pollinate peppers. I am growing Fish and Purple Beauty, two heirloom varieties. Fish is medium hot, and Purple Beauty isn't hot, yet both are listed as Capsicum annuum. How ...