**5. Future perspectives**

The success of Capsicum breeding demonstrates the program's potential for future growth. Capsicum has a lot of opportunities for development and expansion. The genetic diversity of capsicum has been discovered using a whole-genome sequence and a genotyping by sequencing technique to locate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Because of this genomic information, we may now believe that the genetic makeup of capsicum can be changed to a far greater extent than previously anticipated. The number of studies that relate genetic variation to observable phenotypic variation, on the other hand, is still fairly low. Finding unique linkages between the generated genetic resources and crucial capsicum characteristics such as fruit size, production, pungency, resilience to abiotic stress, nutritional content, and disease resistance is a major research subject. Furthermore, the utilization of transgenic technology in capsicum is slow because of the difficulty of changing and regenerating capsicum. Now that the capsicum genome sequence is accessible, researchers may look at the most recent genome-editing technologies and their potential use in genetic upgrading of capsicum. The capacity of organisms to profit from gene/genome editing is greatly limited by a lack of well-characterized target gene information. Combining cutting-edge genetic breeding technologies with tried-and-true processes like as traditional selections and crosses will be important in capsicum breeding in the future.
