One acre of genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate the entire U.S. population safely and inexpensively, a molecular biologist at the University of ...

*(By Percy Lovell Crawford) – You would be hard-pressed to find anyone with more knowledge about tobacco, particularly cigars, than Foundation Cigars president Nicholas Melillo. A longtime smoker, ...

A UK-based molecular farming start-up has developed a new genetic engineering method to make lower-cost growth factors from tobacco plants that can be used for cultivated meat production. Manchester’s ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Apr., 1950), pp. 264-271 (8 pages) Respiration has been studied in tobacco callus tissue grown in vitro on agar containing 2 per cent sucrose. Slices 0.5 mm ...

Legend has it that in 1815 a large pile of tobacco was left outside a factory on a hot summer day when a sudden rainstorm soaked the entire lot. A small fortune was lost — or so they thought. Instead ...

Maduro tobaccos are considered too thick and too costly to use for anything but wrapper leaf. Thus a maduro (the Spanish word for “mature” or “ripe”) cigar is only wrapped in—not filled with or bound ...

When the pandemic disrupted global markets and forced businesses to rethink their futures, most farmers tried to ride out the storm. Jacob Yfrach, an Israeli-born vegetable grower with farms in Mexico ...

Cigarettes cause a nearly endless amount of health problems–heart disease, lung cancer, and asthma are just a few of the more common issues triggered by the tobacco-filled sticks. But while cigarettes ...