Capsaicin (CAP), the pungent principle from chilli peppers, has shown various activities such as analgesic, anticancer and antioxidant. To further explore a therapeutic application of this compound, several derivatives of CAP were designed and synthesized. Starting materials, CAP and dihydrocapsaicin (DHC), were obtained as a mixture from dried fruits of Capsicum annuum sp. in 0.069 % yield. St...

Professor Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore -43. Tamilnadu, India. Abstract: Mycotoxins are toxic substances produced mostly as secondary metabolites by fungi that grow on seeds and feed in the field, or in storage. The food-borne Mycotoxins likely to be of greatest significance for human health are Aflatoxin and Fumonisins. Chili pepper is also affect...

An efficient and highly reproducible protocol for micropropagation of bird eye chilli Capsicum frutescens was attempted. Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing 0.5-3.0 mgl(-1) of 6-benzyladenine (BA), 2-isopentenyl adenine (2iP), kinetin and 0.5-2.0 mg l(-1) of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) along with 1 gl(-1) activated charcoal (AC) were used for shoot regeneratio...

Although spices have been used for thousands of years and are known for their flavor, taste and color in the food, they are not usually recognized for their medicinal value. Extensive research within the last two decades from our laboratory and others has indicated that there are phytochemicals present in spices that may prevent various chronic illnesses including cancerous, diabetic, cardiovas...

Vegetables hold very important and significant place in our diet, among vegetables chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) is one of the most vegetable crop Pakistan. The vegetable’s market integration major problem Pakistan symbol efficiency integrated markets. present study was conducted for domestic four markets by using their monthly wholesale prices eighteen years (June 2000 to July 2019) adopting Joh...

Among the single treatments tested under in vivo addition of well decomposed FYM 20 tons per hectare as soil amendment recorded minimum wilt incidence of 3.75, 24.76 and 48.25 % at flowering, fruit formation and ripening stages of chilli crop, respectively, with 61.31 q ha fruit yield as compared to check (42.50 q ha). Dual application of Trichoderma viride 0.16 t ha + FYM 20 t ha recorded mini...

The past few years have witnessed a remarkable progress in understanding the neurobiology of pain. Important advances have been made particularly in the field of peripheral signal transduction in nociceptors. Membrane receptors have been identified for capsaicin, a pungent ingredient of chilli peppers, protons (i.e. acidic solutions) and for heat, three stimuli that specifically excite nocicept...

Genomic DNA isolated from zygotic embryos (seeds) of 7 chilli pepper varieties, namely Capsicum annuum L., California wonder, Yolo wonder, G-5, Pusa sadabahar, Pusa jyothi and LCA-335 and Capsicum chinense Jacq. variety Kotpar, was PCR-amplified using Pun1 allele specific primer MAP1. A DNA band admeasuring 479 bp was observed in C annuum L., varieties California wonder and Yolo wonder, while a...