Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden - the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising ...

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 ...

Tobacco is taking a beating from politicians and cigarette companies, and many farmers are looking for new ways to make a living. Growers are using some creative ideas to keep food on everyone's table ...

In China, 350 million people smoke. Each year, 1 million die from smoking. Many more become disabled. Approximately 20 million Chinese farmers produce the world's largest share of tobacco, nearly 40 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nicotine, nornicotine, anabasine, and anatabine, normally found in growing and mature tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) plants, were extracted ...

Discover how the tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata adapts to caterpillar threats by changing its pollination strategy and attracting hummingbirds. which grows in Western United States and flowers at ...

Plants attract insect pollinators to ensure reproduction. However, female moths are also threatening to the plant: attracted by the flower's scent, they lay eggs on the leaves, and voracious ...

Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have discovered a gene in an ancient Australian native tobacco plant that they say is the key to growing crops in space. The ...

Israeli start-up BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants in attempt to overcome the greatest hurdle currently facing the budding cultivated meat industry: scaled production. Cultured, cultivated or ...