GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gregor Mendel, Grafting, Paprika
26 Nov 2016
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Capsasin is the heat unit of hot pepper: 0 16 million scovald unit, hottest pepper: 2 million scovald unit, in the market max is like 6 thousand. Grape fruit: no body know when it originated it is a mystery, first appeared in jamaica, it"s a hybrid of sour citric fruit but no evidence that is has been hybridized as its origin. The word fruit: latin origin/root = means pleasure, enjoyment, develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower. Means that tomatoes, peppers, corn, eggplants are fruits: difference between sugar levels of fruits, between tropical regions . Tropic fruits have higher sugar level: 20-26% So roots, leaf, stems are considered vegies: raspberry is not a fruit, segments of raspberry are fruits it"s a collection of fruit. Modern fruits are due human manipulation: 6,000 b. c, ancestors discovered a way to reproduce plants without using its seeds.
