Chilli plants botanically referred to as genus Capsicum is the member of Solananceae family. It is the native to the Tropical South America and Brazil. The genus Capsicum consists of about 20species and only four species are under cultivation, out of which C. pendulum and C. pubescens are restricted to the South and Central America. The other two species such as C. annuum and C. frutescens are ...

Chilli is the most ubiquitous spice used in Bhutanese cuisine. Almost all dishes Bhutan contain chillies various forms. produces many variants of chilli, one which Namgang chilli. Commonly known for being hottest and tastiest Bhutan, it cultivated Pakshikha, Bongo Gewog, Chukha. This study aimed at identifying value chain actors their roles, margins, mapping out its overall chain. The quantitat...

aphis gossypii glover is one of the most important pests of greenhouse cucumber and pepper in the world and iran. in this research, life table and biology of a. gossypii were investigated on cucumber (cucumis sativus cv. super sultan) and pepper (capsicum annum cv. marqueza) in a growth chamber at 25±1°c and 60±5% rh and a photoperiod of 14 l: 10 d hour.the results showed thatdevelopmental time...

Capsicum annuum (Chilli) is an important spice crop grown in tropical and subtropical areas of India. Chilli suffers from several diseases, out which anthracnose chilli one the diseases. Keeping view negative impact fungicides on environment, experimentwas conducted to evaluate Trichoderma isolates against disease chilli. spp. are being usedto control plant diseases sustainable management syste...

Pungency of hot pepper has limited its usage even though it shows various health beneficial effects. This study was conducted to develop the novel yoghurt containing hot pepper with diminishing pungency and aimed to examine the quality characteristics of yoghurt prepared with fermented red pepper. Hot pepper was first fermented with Bacillus licheniformis SK1230 to reduce the pungency of capsai...

Diabetic rats in long-term display an augmented nociceptive response to chemical, mechanical, and thermal stimuli. Furthermore, hyperalgesia is one of the major symptoms of diabetic neuropathy in some patients. Considering the antidiabetic potential of pepper, this study was conducted to evaluate the possible analgesic effect of pepper-mixed food intake in male streptozotocin-induced diabetic r...

Thrips are minute insects and belong to the family thripidae of the order Thysanoptera. Thrips are less than two millimeters long, slender like and agile insects. Head of Scirtothrips dorsalis is pale in colour longer than broad, 217.5-237 μm long and 175-194 μm wide across the eyes. Eyes are redish in colour, 75-89 μm long and 63-70 μm wide at the middle and three occili are arranged triangula...

In this study, we examined the antimutagenicity of red pepper seed and red pepper pericarp ethanol extracts using the standard Ames test in the presence and absence of S9 mix. The extracts showed inhibitory effects on both the TA98 and TA100 Salmenella Typhimurium strains against the mutagenic activity of promutagen 2-aminoa nthracene, and were also protective against the directly acting mutage...

A hydroponic co-culture system was adopted to determine the allelopathic potential of garlic on the growth of pepper plants. Different numbers of garlic plants (0, 2, 4, 8 and 12) were hydroponically co-cultured with two pepper plants to investigate allelopathic effects on the growth attributes and antioxidative defense system of the test pepper plants. The responses of the pepper plants depend...