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 ...

nerve cells and nasal membranes (it puts the sting in pepper spray). But its function in wild chili plants has been mysterious. Which is why Tewksbury and his colleagues have made multiple trips ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at ... he said. Is it possible to grow peppers with the ancient pepper seeds? While unlikely as they are carbonized, Zheng said there ...