Variety of peppers (IMAGE)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research

Variety of peppers

Caption

The researchers conducted a huge genomic scan of over ten thousand pepper (Capsicum spp.) samples from worldwide genebanks and used the data to investigate the history of this iconic staple.

Credit

Ilan Paran

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Public Domain

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