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 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 ...

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 became a panacea in 16th century Europe, prescribed for almost everything. The most bizarre application, however, would probably be as a cure for symptoms of drowning in the 18th century.

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 ...