From the time he was “old enough to carry a hoe,” Tom Schloeder was a member of the labor force on his father’s farm north of Eden Valley. Schloeder and his three older brothers, like most ...

Plants also provide considerable flexibility that allows customized protein production. Tobacco species like Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana tabacum are known for having compromised basal ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

Meeker County’s connection to agriculture is well-established – with dairy farms sprinkled throughout the countryside, First District Association’s enormous processing facility ...

The pollinators of a wild tobacco plant use the tip of their proboscis to determine whether they should stop for a drink. In this webinar, Ed Boyden and Jerzy Szablowski will talk about how synthetic ...

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 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.

Last month, a monoclonal antibody produced in the leaves of tobacco plants entered phase I clinical trials in the United Kingdom. The antibody, known as P2G12, recognizes an HIV surface protein and is ...

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) was the first virus to be identified and described. Its name comes from the mosaic-like pattern it causes on the leaves of infected plants. Studies of TMV — including ...