India linked to new Biowarfare weapon

[GarfieldtheCat]

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All fear weaponized chili!

Just a funny story to start the day

 

[Moonbeam]

The potential I see in this and the direction I'd take the research is to figure out if the genetic changes that produce such an abundance of a chemical found, apparently, far less concentrated normally in other peppers, might have any universal value in greatly augmenting the production of a wide range of other useful chemicals.

In short, how do these peppers produce such an abundance of capsaicin and could that ability be used to produce much more of something else like cancer drugs, antibiotics, etc.

 

[cubeless]

i see a food network/history channel collaborative project in the works...

and they don't say, but i would think that the pepper is the result of selective breeding over some period of time... or a lucky mutation that someone picked up and propagated...

interesting to think that lots of the kind of research that mb is typing about have gone into making corn into the monster grass it has become, but i'm going to bet not so much has gone into other nutriceuticals and biologicals...

 

[sciwizam]

Or they could just use pure capsaicin.

 

[DesiPower]

Indian lemon!?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

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All fear weaponized chili!

Just a funny story to start the day

Why?

Law Enforcement Grade pepper spray ~ 5 million scoville

Bhut Jolokia ~ 1 million scoville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale