Nicotiana is a popular enough genus in the garden, and sold widely as bedding at this time of year. But maybe it would be even more popular if gardeners knew how much interesting biology lurked behind ...

Polyploidy is an important driving force in angiosperm evolution, and much research has focused on genetic, epigenetic and transcriptomic responses to allopolyploidy. Nicotiana is an excellent system ...

Flowering tobacco is easy to grow and comes in a variety of colors with showy, perfumed blossoms. FLOWERING TOBACCO (NICOTIANA) ARE VERSATILE ornamental annual garden flowers for both sun and shade.

The interaction between roots and leaves as a function of the capacity of differently positioned leaves to induce flowering of four cultivars of Nicotiana tabacum L. was assessed under long- and short ...

I have an experiment going this summer with one of my favorite plants, Nicotiana sylvestris. This particular Nicotiana, from a group of plants sometimes called flowering tobacco, is quite different ...

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. A member of the Solanaceae family, it can contain up to nine times more nicotine than common ...

Induction of cell death is an important component of plant defense against pathogens. There have been many reports on the role of phytohormones in pathogen-induced cell death, but jasmonic acid (JA) ...

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 ...

Vaccines are currently the most effective prevention measure against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, ...