Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 38, No. 194 (September 1987), pp. 1507-1516 (10 pages) Five Nicotiana species (N. benthemiana, N. debneyi, N. occidentalis, N ...

Nicotiana or, Flowering Tobacco as it’s commonly called, is an easy to grow, fragrant annual that is a member of the tobacco family. This is a plant that, despite having a high concentration of ...

A Nicotiana plant shows spotty photobleaching of leaves thanks to gene editing accomplished with a virus. The new technique allows edited traits to be passed to the next generation while avoiding some ...

Nicotiana sylvestris is one of my favorite heirloom flowers, and each year draws a hummingbird or two, as well as hummingbird moths. The tall, thick-stemmed annual sets seed throughout my garden and ...

Over the many years that I have been a Master Gardener, I have heard people talk about Nicotiana in the garden, but I didn’t pay much attention. Then fellow Master Gardeners Gary Thompson and Noble ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Viroids are sub-viral plant pathogens consisting of covalently closed circular RNAs that infect herbaceous and woody hosts. They do not code ...

Watch a Nicotiana rustica (Aztec tobacco) plant grow from seed to flower in just 60 days. This powerful tobacco species contains up to nine times more nicotine than common varieties and is also used ...

Vaccines are currently the most effective prevention measure against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, ...

Scientists have found that the tobacco plant Nicotiana can maintain grafts between a broad range of species. Using Nicotiana as an intermediary, they succeeded in indirectly grafting a tomato scion ...

THE physiological action and practical application of gibberellic acid are well known (H. Seltman, private communication and refs. 1 and 2). Tests were conducted to investigate its possible ...

Botrytis is a fungus disease that infects the leaves, stems, fruit and flowers of a wide variety of vegetables, perennials and shrubs. Infected leaves and stems develop water-soaked spots that often ...