Hot peppers add spicy flavor to dishes, taking a recipe from bland to “boy that’s hot!” The amount of capsaicin in a pepper ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

Joshua Tewksbury and colleagues study whether the hot stuff ... of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, who maintains a huge collection of chili seeds. Bosland told Tewksbury ...

all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in the formation of the fruit. That depends entirely on the ...