22 Feb 2014

Chilli genetics

From This Way Up, 12:55 pm on 22 February 2014

A team of scientists including Allen Van Deynze at the University of California Davis has cracked the genome of the chilli pepper. Now it's been published can growers breed tastier chillis and even instant salsa tomatoes?!

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