Pepper (Capsicum L.) is a major vegetable and spice crop worldwide. Global production of
both fresh and dried fruit continues to increase steadily in terms of area harvested and yield …

Capsicum (chili peppers) is a New World genus with five crop species of great economic
importance for food and spices. An up-to-date summary of the karyotypic knowledge is …

 Abstract Capsicum L.(tribe Capsiceae, Solanaceae) is an American genus distributed
ranging from the southern United States of America to central Argentina and Brazil. The …

Capsicum as a spice crop, has wild and cultivated forms admired globally, including Indian
subcontinent with vast climatic ranges. Systematic representation of the Indian Capsicum is …

Phylogeographical studies combined with species distribution modelling can provide
evidence for past climate refugia. During the Pleistocene, the Chaco phytogeographical …

Triple staining with the fluorochromes chromomycin A3, distamycin A and 4′-6-diamidino-2-
phenylindole (CMA/DA/DAPI) was applied to somatic metaphases and interphase nuclei of …

Karyotype data within a phylogenetic framework and molecular dating were used to
examine chromosome evolution in Nierembergia and to infer how geological or climatic …

Two new species of Capsicum from the Caatinga Biome (Brazil) are described and
illustrated. The two species are endemic to the north-eastern states of Brazil (C. caatingae …

Chromosome number and position of rDNA were studied in 12 wild and cultivated species of
the genus Capsicum with chromosome numbers x= 12 and x= 13 (22 samples). For the first …

Plant domestication genetics has been of interest not only for evolutionary biologists but also
for anthropologists and breeders, because of its past and present role in human cultural …