Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...

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 ...

Plants also provide considerable flexibility that allows customized protein production. Tobacco species like Nicotiana ...

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. announced that a COVID-19 vaccine derived from a type of tobacco plant and developed by Medicago Inc., the Osaka-based company’s ...

The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine "factories". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow.

Currently, there are no U.S. limits on nicotine, which occurs naturally in tobacco plants. There are several techniques for removing it, including chemical extraction and cross-breeding plants.

Efforts to protect an endangered plant are being pointed to as worsening the Palisades fire, but the org behind this protection says that is not the full story.