Plants that we extract medicines from today, such as yew trees, are becoming endangered. An emerging field is engineering tobacco to have it produce the same medications we typically extract from ...

The researchers from US Department of Agriculture and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced genetic constructs that tweaked a process called photorespiration in tobacco plants.

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV ... of the virus in the early 1900s — laid the foundation for the field of virology. Today, many plants have been genetically modified to resist infection by TMV.

Also known as EPLMs, “engineered plant ... they took tobacco cells and mixed them with gelatin and hydrogel microparticles. Hydrogels also have self-healing properties, so the field of ...

Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs. Specifically, the ...

This suggests that changing environmental conditions during growth in the field have a greater ... with stem material from unmodified tobacco and tobacco plants with modifications that reduce ...

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 ...

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 ...