Wedlug niego papryki ktore maja staly dostep do wody produkuja wiecej kapsaicyny.
So when faced with a choice, plants make only hot chilies when they don't have to worry about a drought. Otherwise, they take their chances with the fungus. "There is no free lunch," Tewksbury says.
They collected 330 C. chacoense plants from across a 300-kilometer-long area, which ranges from desert-like conditions in the northeast to very moist conditions in the southwest. The researchers found that only about 15% to 20% of the chili peppers produced in the dry conditions are hot, compared with 100% of the peppers from plants living in wet conditions.
Teraz rozumiem dlaczego bhut jolokia w Assamie produkuje papryki o tak duzej ilosci kapaicyny. Wedlug spacjalistow z Indii bhut jolokia hodowana w suchym klimacie uzyskuje tylko 300 000 SHU.
Co o tym myslicie?