“…A total of 68, 67, 68, 91, 34, 62, 80, 89, 103, 116, 31, and 86 CCCH zinc finger family genes have been identified in Arabidopsis ( Wang et al., 2008 ), rice ( Wang et al., 2008 ), maize ( Peng et al., 2012 ), poplar ( Chai et al., 2012 ), Medicago truncatula ( Zhang et al., 2013 ), citrus ( Liu et al., 2014 ), tomato ( Xu, 2014 ), banana ( Mazumdar et al., 2017 ), cabbage ( Brassica rapa ) ( Pi et al., 2018 ), soybean ( Hu and Zuo, 2021 ), rose ( Li et al., 2021 ), and tobacco ( Tang C. et al., 2022 ), respectively. Although CCCH zinc finger proteins play an important role in many aspects of plant growth and development, no systematic studies have been conducted to analyze and identify members of the CCCH gene family in pepper to date.…”