Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Chile pepper (Capsicum spp.) is a major culinary, medicinal, and economic crop in most
areas of the world. For more than hundreds of years, chile peppers have “defined” the state …

Capsaicinoids are unique compounds produced only in peppers (Capsicum spp.). Several
studies using classical quantitative trait loci (QTL s) mapping and genomewide association …

Plants produce countless specialized metabolites crucial for their development and fitness,
and many are useful bioactive compounds. Capsaicinoids are intriguing genus‐specialized …

Chili peppers exhibit antiobesity, anticancer, antidiabetic, and pain-and itch-relieving effects
on animals and humans; these effects are due to capsaicin, which is the main pungent and …

Key message A major QTL and candidate genes controlling capsaicinoid content in the
pericarp were identified by QTL-seq and RNA-seq in Capsicum chinense. Abstract …

Pepper (Capsicum spp.) holds significant value as both a vegetable and a spice crop
cultivated across the world, belonging to the genus Capsicum of the Solanaceae family. In …

Pepper is a crucial vegetable as well as spice crop, fruits of which contain numerous
bioactive compounds such as capsaicinoids, capsinoids, carotenoids, and oleoresin …

There are many agronomic traits of pepper (Capsicum L.) with abundant phenotypes that
can benefit pepper growth. Using specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) …

Capsaicinoids provide chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) with their characteristic pungency.
Several structural and transcription factor genes are known to control capsaicinoid contents …