Genebanks collect vast collections of plants and detailed passport information, with the aim of preserving genetic diversity for conservation and breeding. Genetic characterisation of such collections ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have reconstructed the distribution history of black pepper over the past 21,000 years in an international ...

It's hard to describe the unique taste bud journey that happens after taking a sip of Dr Pepper: fizzy, sweet, hint of cherry, and a little bit spicy somehow. While Southerners love to claim Coca-Cola ...

The next time you grind a little black pepper on your steak, think about this: The pepper trade was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, the enslavement of countless others, the ...

Recently identified chili pepper fossils from Boulder and Denver museums challenge millions of years of global tomato evolutionary history. Now, that's some spicy science! Botanists and ...

The Dr Pepper Museum has announced it will receive over $1,000,000 through a new "transformational" commitment. The museum announced that The Hillman Family Foundation honoring Cornerstone Caregiving ...

One afternoon in 2021, a postdoctoral researcher and undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder walked into the campus museum not knowing they were about to change the history of the chile ...

Genetic data stored in genebanks confirm that pepper, thanks to its flexible features (easily preserved and transportable in dried form, needed in moderate quantity to enrich dishes, easy to produce ...