Chilli peppers cultivated in India are considered to be world’s famous for two important commercial qualities: pungency (hotness) and colour. Some varieties are
famous for biting pungency attributed to Capsaicin (Kumar et al., 2001) and fluorescent red colour due to the pigment Capsanthin (Kumar et al., 2006). A natural hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum rutescens variety Bhut jolokia, cultivated in Assam was the world’s hottest chilli pepper (Mathur et al., 2000; Bosland and Baral, 2007)