“Chile Pepper Institute” to bring back the No. 9 Chile. “We have like these 4 x 4 plots, so we’re going to try and do nine per plot, so around 36 plants or so,” said Bailey. Michael ...

Hatch chiles are a cultivar group of the centuries-old chile pepper plant, which was first grown in North America throughout Santa Fe de Nuevo México by Pueblo and Hispanic communities.

Ohio State scientists identify three natural compounds in chili peppers that reduce spicy heat while preserving all the ...

[Related: Oldest evidence of digested plants in a roughly 575-million-year-old creature’s gut.] Nevertheless, this discovery puts the oldest chili peppers in a place that no longer has many ...

A wiry 40-year-old ecologist at the University ... nerve cells and nasal membranes (it puts the sting in pepper spray). But its function in wild chili plants has been mysterious.

Instead, he used it as a decorative plant. Workers dry fresh chili peppers in Chongqing, China. Photograph by Qiu Hongbin, VCG/Getty Images But while elite Chinese enjoyed chili peppers in their ...