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News Release 04-082
Pepper Prodigies Pursue Plants Like Those Picked by Parents
Migrant farmworkers' children, grandchildren research at NMSU's Chile Pepper Institute
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Baudelio De Santiago, who explored methods of combating a pepper fungus, mixes a batch of biological control agents.
Credit: Danise Coon
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Marlyn Jacobo uses a pipette to dispense chile DNA into a tubes for genetic analysis. Prior to participating in the Assured program last summer, she had spent summers in the fields picking chiles and onions in the fields.
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The familiar bell pepper, Capsicum annuum, comes in an array of hues.
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Among New Mexican peppers, the red savina habanero, a variation of Capsicum chinense, is second in pungency -- or heat level -- only to the orange variety of the same species.
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