Using newly generated 'optogenetic' tobacco plants, research teams have investigated how plants process external signals. When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to ...

The tobacco found in products like cigarettes and cigars starts as a plant. People have consumed the leaves of the tobacco plant in various forms for thousands of years. But handling the leaves of ...

The complex biochemistry that sees coca plants make cocaine has been unpicked and replicated in a relative of the tobacco plant. Recreating the process by modifying other plants or microorganisms ...

To learn more about the process, the team had to reverse engineer cocaine by tinkering with the genes in another plant, in this case tobacco. “Scientific curiosity and interest motivated us to do this ...

Nicotiana benthamiana has been genetically modified to produce cocaine in its leaves. Despite its medical uses, cocaine is a highly addictive substance that is harmful to one's health. According ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...

22nd Century says it used a patent-protected process to control nicotine biosynthesis in the tobacco plant, enabling it to create a pack of cigarettes with about as much nicotine as one Marlboro.

Scientists have successfully genetically engineered a close relative of the tobacco plant to produce nutrients ... but the ...