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A flesh-rotting mold that infects chili peppers arrives via sap-sucking bugs that visit the plants. Capsaicinoids, the chemicals that give hot peppers their zing, protect the plants’ seeds by slowing fungal growth.

Credit: Tomas Carlo

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