Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

Scientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials. The researchers say they have found a way of overcoming natural restrictions in the ...

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.

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. announced that a COVID-19 vaccine derived from a type of tobacco plant and developed by Medicago Inc., the Osaka-based company’s ...

According to German technology university TU Dortmund, their researchers have managed to genetically modify a tobacco plant called Virginia Smoking Tobacco, so that its concentration of the highly ...

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was the first virus to be identified and described. Its name comes from the mosaic-like pattern it causes on the leaves of infected plants. Studies of TMV — including ...

In order to clarify the correlation between these two enzymes and stress tolerance, we produced transgenic tobacco plants that overexpress SOD or APX in chloroplasts. Total SOD activity of the SOD ...