Creating Tastier and Healthier Fruits and Veggies with a Modern Alternative to GMOs
... As the friends ate the unusual peppers, they snipped off leaves from each plant, which they later crushed and liquefied to examine the DNA within. By syncing the results of the DNA analysis with what their palates had told them, the team managed to identify a specific genetic mutation that explained why some of the peppers lacked heat. ...
The heatless habaneros had inherited a mutation that nearly—but not completely—shut down their capsaicin factories, leaving the glands just functional enough to eke out a drop of capsaicin and fragrant molecules here and there. ...
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Although this is good science, if we were to have chili peppers without the capsicum, what would happen to good hot chili spiced foods?