| Affiliations: | Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center |
| Project Leader: | Priyanka Gade prgade@tamu.edu Horticultural Sciences |
| Faculty Mentor: | Dr. Bhimanagouda S. Patil, Ph.D |
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Meeting Times:
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TBD |
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Team Size:
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4 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Great opportunity to work with field and greenhouse. Particularly those who have interest in plant breeding and analytical chemistry and in gaining experience in cross pollination technique in peppers.
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Team Needs:
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Students with a love of plants will find this research interesting. Students should have an interest in plant physiology, extraction, and analysis of health-promoting compounds using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) from peppers. Participants will get Hands-on experience on diverse tasks such as sowing, transplanting, crop maintenance, pollination, harvesting of peppers.
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Description:
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Peppers are low in calories and exceptionally rich in vitamin C and other antioxidants, making them an excellent addition to a healthy diet. This project aims to understand the genotype and environment effect and maturity on the pungency and non-pungency levels in peppers.
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