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Article: New cayenne pepper available.
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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A new cayenne pepper ideal for home gardeners who want a compact, highyielding variety for their chili and other spicy foods has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Named Charleston Hot, the new pepper is also resistant to all four known races of southern root knot nematode and to other nematode species.
The southern root knot nematode damages plant roots, cutting yields by up to 50 percent and killing a plant under extreme conditions, says Philip D. Dukes, a plant pathologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dukes says Charleston Hot reduced root knot nematodes by 95 percent in field ...