Fungus Puts the Heat in Chili Peppers, Study Says

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 08:14 in Biology & Nature

The chilis develop piquant chemicals to frustrate the harmful fungus long enough for birds and other animals to disperse the peppers' seeds, a new study finds.

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