What if nicotine—which we associate with addiction—actually holds the key to treating depression, ADHD, Alzheimer's, & ...

It may be indigenous to the Americas and Australia, but it is a resilient plant and can be grown all over the world. Thanks to its ease of genetic modification, tobacco can become even more ...

Growing tobacco is also culturally important to native communities. That’s why task force members plant tobacco and water it as a thank you gift to the Earth. “We thank the water spirits and ...

Professor David Craik and Dr Mark Jackson from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have demonstrated native ... the plant cell to produce the molecule of interest. “The wild tobacco ...

History of the tobacco plant. The tobacco plant originated in South America and has been used by indigenous cultures in the Americas for thousands of years. Cultures like the Maya used tobacco ...

native to western South America, biosynthesizes cocaine for at least a century. To learn more about the process, the team had to reverse engineer cocaine by tinkering with the genes in another plant, ...

And this plant is making its comeback after being ... Petrie and others gifted the recovered Columbian Tobacco to several Native American groups and the other eight federally-recognized tribes ...