Response to organic cultivation of heirloom Capsicum peppers: Variation in the level of bioactive compounds and effect of ripening.

ABSTRACT: Peppers (Capsicum spp.) are one of the most important vegetables and their double use (vegetable or spice) and two commercial stages (unripe and fully ripe) contributed to their use in many recipes and fast diffusion from America. Nowadays, Spain is a center of diversity for C. annuum, with many landraces, offering a great opportunity for adaptation to organic cultivation. Furthermore, Capsicum peppers contain many bioactive compounds, essential to provide high added-value to these cultivars, especially for organic markets, although knowledge about the effect of organic cultivation on Capsicum fruit quality is still scarce. Here, 37 accessions of Spanish landraces and foreign materials from C. annuum and other species were grown under organic and conventional conditions and evaluated for a

SUBMITTER: Ribes-Moya AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249006 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature