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In a process similar to how bananas and Brazil nuts become radioactive, tobacco plants can absorb radioactive elements such as radium, lead-210, and polonium-210 from some fertilizers used on ...
All the latest science news on tobacco plants from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and breakthroughs. ... (DSBs) in nuclear DNA in plants serves as a powerful safeguard against ...
The planned restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant along Lake Michigan has has rekindled concerns by neighbors that ...
In fact, the air we breathe carries traces of a quieter kind of warfare — not against people, but pests. Scientists at ...
This sensor measures hydrogen peroxide, a marker of stress in soybean and tobacco plant leaves. Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.4c02645.
In this plant, grown from a single tobacco cell that experienced an EGT event, flowers have four or three petals, which is likely the consequence of a mutation and/or instability in the nuclear ...
Tobacco leaves also contain radioactive materials that come from the soil and fertilizer used to grow the plant. When the tobacco gets burned, the radioactive materials come out in the smoke ...
Plant vacuole is another crucial organelle in tobacco, occupying about 80% to 90% of cell volume in tobacco leaves. The ...
A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...