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.
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 ...
we produced transgenic tobacco plants that overexpress SOD or APX in chloroplasts. Total SOD activity of the SOD-transgenic plant (PSOD) was increased to 2.3-fold compared with wild type ...
TOBACCO leaf production increased 7.45% to 45.4 million kilograms in 2024, with more farmers encouraged to plant by export opportunities and local government prodding, according to the National ...
While smoking may be banned on aircrafts, sustainable tobacco biofuel might just be sending them into the sky someday, offering a cleaner, greener path for flight.