New Mexico’s beloved green chile crop is recognized nationwide, and the state’s pride in the crop is evident even on its ...

Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years ... The tree went extinct in 2003 The lost plants include the Chile sandalwood, which was exploited for essential ...

The history of the chili pepper is in some ways ... we see this continuum between wild and domestic." Usually, domesticated plants are kept mostly separate from their wild progenitors, but chilies ...