The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

Plants also provide considerable flexibility that allows customized protein production. Tobacco species like Nicotiana ...

The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine "factories". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow.

Like Ometepe, Nicaragua, Costa Rica is renowned for its vibrant and volcanic soil, which gives plants grown in the region a ...

In 1918, scientists at a USDA facility in Virginia were puzzled by a pair of questions facing crop growers: Why did Maryland Mammoth tobacco plants, a desirable commercial variety, fail to produce ...

In order to clarify the correlation between these two enzymes and stress tolerance, we produced transgenic tobacco plants that overexpress SOD or APX in chloroplasts. Total SOD activity of the SOD ...

“The Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries, and Rural Development Dr Anxious Masuka, has extended the deadline for ...

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. announced that a COVID-19 vaccine derived from a type of tobacco plant and developed by Medicago Inc., the Osaka-based company’s ...

B+P Architects has designed the Metal Flaming in Tobacco Redrying Plant exhibition in Pingtung City, Taiwan. This project focuses on the space of the historical architecture that preserves the ...

Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter  THE standard precautionary pest control measure to destroy tobacco seedbeds for the 2024/25 cropping season has been moved to January 15, 2025. Before the latest ...