Growers looking to exit tobacco now have an attractive alternative. Oct. 15, 2013 -- After tobacco: What? Every year fewer and fewer farmers plant tobacco, according to the U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in nuclear DNA in plants serves as a ...

I was wrong. Last week I said that dry land was as scarce to find as a tobacco plant in Vernon Country. I was led to believe that no one was raising tobacco anymore in this part of the state. Imagine ...

In total, 58.5% of the participants wanted to stop growing tobacco, and most had a lower quality of life than the mean. Nine independent variables were associated with a desire to stop tobacco farming ...

SAN LUIS, CubaSAN LUIS, Cuba — A neighbor lent him a house to dry leaves, and he had a little fertilizer saved, so he plucked up the courage to plant. Now, Hirochi Robaina can hardly believe the ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers are breathing new life into an old MRI contrast agent by attaching it to a plant virus and wrapping it in a protective chemical cage.

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. A member of the Solanaceae family, it can contain up to nine times more nicotine than common ...

Hello! This weeks video is a tobacco plant. This is for educational purposes only, smoking tobacco is bad for you :) "Nicotiana rustica, commonly known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco, is a ...