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Finding What Puts The Heat In Hot Peppers

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To engineer a better pepper, you'd have to go out into the field—actual fields, around the world—and look at different traits, measurements, and yield. Then, after extracting DNA from various leaves and seeds, you could painstakingly evaluate for the different traits. On Sunday, a large (seriously, look at that list of authors) international team of scientists published the genome of the hot pepper for the first time. The information that lies within the genome could mean a more efficient plant breeding process, but it also helps reveal a few interesting secrets hiding within the pepper's…

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