Patent ID: 8802939

Claim:
A method of producing a fertile interspecific F 1 hybrid pepper plant comprising the steps of: (a) pollinating a male sterile flower of a Capsicum annuum parent selected from a C. annuum plant or a C. annuum hybrid with pollen from a Capsicum pubescens plant or C. pubescens hybrid to form a pollinated flower; (b) treating the pollinated flower with an auxin compound; (c) growing the C. annuum parent until the pollinated flower develops into a fruit bearing a seed; (d) harvesting the fruit bearing a seed that develops from the pollinated flower; and (e) rescuing embryonic tissue from the seed of the fruit to produce a fertile interspecific F 1 hybrid pepper plant; wherein said fertile interspecific F 1 hybrid plant has no nuclear genetic material unique to Capsicum eximium and does not have a C. eximium plant as an ancestor.