ʻO New Mexico kekahi o nā mea hana nui loa o ka pepa chile (Capsicum spp.) ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, me 51,000 tons o ka hana ʻana ma 2021 mai kahi ʻāpana o 8500 mau ʻeka me ka awelika huahana o 6 tons/eka e like me ka US Department of Agriculture National Oihana Helu Mahiai. Ua emi ka huahua ma ka 25% no ka mea, ua mau ka wahi i kanu ʻia i ka hana pepa chile. Ua hopena kēia i ka hōʻemi ʻana i ka hana hoʻokele waiwai ma kahi o 10% i 2020 i hoʻohālikelike ʻia me ka makahiki i hala, mai $ 50.1 miliona a i $ 44.9 miliona. ʻO kēia hāʻule nui o ka nui o ka hana ʻana o ka pepa chile ma ka mokuʻāina ua hoʻoikaika i nā ʻepekema i nā hana hou hou e manaʻo ana e hoʻonui i ka loaʻa genetic a me ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka huahana ma ka papahana NMSU Chile Pepper Breeding and Genetics ma ka loiloi ʻana i nā ʻano like ʻole e pili ana i ka hoʻohua a me ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā kiʻekiʻe. nā mea hana phenotyping throughput e like me ka Tomato Analyzer (TA).
ʻO ka hoʻolālā hua a me nā hiʻohiʻona pili i ka morphology kekahi o nā mea e hoʻoholo ai i ka ʻokoʻa o nā huaʻai a ʻo ia nā mea kōkua nui e hoʻohua a hoʻohua mai i ka pepa chile. Ke hoʻohana nei i ka polokalamu TA, ua hōʻiliʻili nā kānaka ʻepekema i ka ʻikepili e pili ana i kahi pūʻulu o nā ʻano huaʻai e like me ke anapuni hua, nā ʻano kikoʻī, ka nui, a me ka asymmetry i loko o kahi hōʻiliʻili o nā laina chile pepper like ʻole i loiloi ʻia ma lalo o nā kūlana ulu o New Mexico.
Ua manaʻo ka poʻe noiʻi e hōʻike i nā genotypes 105 o kahi paneli diversity Capsicum i loaʻa i nā cultivars, nā laina hānau, nā ʻāina, a me ʻano ʻāhiu no 12 mau ʻano pod (hua) ʻokoʻa, no 32 morphometric TA descriptors. Hoʻopili ʻia ka ʻikepili hierarchical cluster i nā genotypes i ʻewalu mau pūʻulu e pili ana i nā mea wehewehe TA. ʻO nā ana kumu—ʻo ia hoʻi, ke anapuni, ka ʻāpana, ka laula waena, ka laulā kiʻekiʻe, ke kiʻekiʻe waena waena, kiʻekiʻe kiʻekiʻe, a me ke kiʻekiʻe curved— ʻo ia nā mea wehewehe ʻokoʻa loa me ka hāʻawi nui loa i ke ʻano huaʻai holoʻokoʻa.
Ua hōʻike ʻia ka pono o nā mea wehewehe morphometric TA, he paʻakikī ke ana ma o ka phenotyping maʻamau. Ua paipai ʻia kekahi mau mea kanu me ke ʻano hua a me ka morphology e pili ana i nā kānana puʻupuʻu e like me nā laina makua no ka hoʻohuihui e hoʻomaikaʻi i ka hoʻohua ʻana i nā papahana hoʻohua pepa chile. Loaʻa nā hopena e hoʻohana ana i ka TA no ke ana ʻana i nā ʻano pili i nā hua noiʻi papahana genome-laulā a me ke koho genomic no ka hoʻohua a me ka hāʻawi ʻana i nā ʻano ma New Mexican chile pepper.