The red that normally colors the flower of a tobacco plant may now be put to use to signal "stop" in the presence of deadly land mines. South African scientists along with a Dutch biotech firm have ...

Archaeologists in Utah discovered four charred seeds of a wild tobacco plant in northern Utah. This is the earliest documented evidence of human tobacco use, dating back over 12,000 years. The ...

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 ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that "sticky" hairlike structures on tobacco leaves can help attract beneficial insects that scavenge on other insects trapped on the leaves, ...

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have identified a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step ...

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 ...

Biologists have used bioelectronics to influence transpiration in a tobacco plant, without harming the plant in any way. Research in the Electronic Plants group at the Laboratory of Organic ...

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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned a multi-million-dollar expansion at Cut Rag Processors, making it Africa’s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a healthy use for tobacco after breeding genetically modified plants containing a medicine that could stop type 1 diabetes. The move marks the latest advance ...

AAP FACTCHECK - Tobacco is a leading cause of cancer and is not a proven cure for the disease, despite claims online. False ...

Historically, tobacco plants are responsible for their share of illness and death. Now they may help control the COVID-19 pandemic. Two biotech companies are using the tobacco plant, Nicotiana ...