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Humans began using tobacco at least 12,300 years ago, shows new evidence gathered by scientists from the interiors of north America. Four charred seeds of a wild tobacco plant were found in the ...

Ancient North Americans started using tobacco around 12,500 to 12,000 years ago, roughly 9,000 years before the oldest indications that they smoked the plant in pipes, a new study finds. This ...

Scientists have unearthed evidence of a milestone in human culture - the earliest-known use of tobacco - in the remnants of a hearth built by early inhabitants of North America's interior about ...

The researchers found that when a species of wild tobacco plant (Nicotiana attenuata) that is indigenous to the Great Basin Desert of the southwestern United States gets damaged by a herbivore ...

How plants produce defensive toxins without harming themselves Defense and autotoxicity: Researchers elucidate the biosynthesis and mode of action of diterpene glycosides in wild tobacco Date ...

While a range of carnivorous plants are known across the plant kingdom, this is the first wild tobacco plant discovered to kill insects. Dubbed Nicotiana insecticida, it was uncovered by a project ...

At a truck stop along a Western Australian highway, researchers noticed an unfamiliar wild tobacco plant. Covered in sticky hairs, the plant appeared to be a mass grave for small insects — flies ...