• Capsaicinoid Inheritance in an Interspecific Hybridization

  Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 125(4)

• Capsicums: Innovative Uses of an Ancient Crop

  Center for New Crops & Plant Products
  Purdue University

• Evaluation of Genotype, Environment, and Genotype-by Environment…

  Euphytica: International Journal of Plant Breeding 111

• Jewels in the Genome: Pepper Heat

  eXtension

• Measuring Chile Pepper Heat

  Guide H-237
  New Mexico State University

• Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper is the World’s Hottest Measured…

  HortTechnology 22(4)

• World’s Hottest Chile Pepper Discovered

  ScienceDaily
  New Mexico State University

• What’s So Hot About Chili Peppers?

  Smithsonian Magazine

 

Hort Science ‘Bhut Jolokia’ – The World’s Hottest Known Chile Pepper is a… Combining Ability and Heterosis for Capsaicinoids in Capsicum pubescens Environment Produces a Significant Effect on Pungency Heat Level in Chile Pepper in Relation to Root and Fruit Infection Impact of Drought Stress on the Accumulations of Capsaicinoids in… Improved Method for Quantifying Capsaicinoids in Capsicum Pungency of Chile Fruit is Affected by Node Position

Companies Who Perform High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Scoville Heat Units (SHU) or Heat Testing The Chile Pepper Institute does not provide HPLC/SHU/Heat testing on chile pepper samples to the general public, however, the following companies do:

10 Hottest Chile Peppers that the CPI has tested

1. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (2 Million SHU)
2. Chocolate 7 pot (1.8 Million SHU)
3. Trinidad Scorpion (1.5 Million SHU)
4. Bhut Jolokia (1 Million SHU)
5. Red 7 Pot (780,000 SHU)
6. Chocolate Habanero (700,000 SHU)
7. Red Savina Habanero (500,000 SHU)
8. Scotch Bonnet (350,000 SHU)
9. Orange Habanero (250,000 SHU)
10. Rocoto (175,000 SHU)