The sensitivities of tobacco, tomato, pepper, and cucumber seedlings to an aquatic herbicide, fluridone, were examined in growth chamber and greenhouse studies. New leaves of tobacco seedlings became ...

Santiago de los Caballeros.- The Tobacco Institute of the Dominican Republic (INTABACO) announced that it is producing 15 ...

Made by our kidneys, interleukin 37 (IL-37) is a protein that has powerful anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressing properties. It's only produced in small quantities within the body, but if ...

Dinitroaniline herbicides are used for the selective control of weeds in arable crops. Dinitroaniline herbicide resistance in the invasive weed goosegrass was previously shown to stem from a ...

Tobacco: It’s good for more than just giving you lung cancer. Scientists at UC Berkeley recently figured out a way to get tobacco plants to grow extractable synthetic photovoltaic and photochemical ...

Etiolated seedlings of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) were exposed to single light pulses predicted to establish different proportions of phytochrome in its far-red absorbing form (Pfr/P). The angle ...

Historically, tobacco plants are responsible for their share of illness and death. Now they may help control the COVID-19 pandemic. Two biotech companies are using the tobacco plant, Nicotiana ...

Researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute are using tobacco plants as 'green bioreactors' to produce an anti-inflammatory protein with powerful therapeutic potential. The ...

There was a time tobacco was fairly big business in central Wisconsin. "The shiftless, lazy, careless farmer need not expect to be successful for he will make a miserable failure if he tried. It needs ...

One of the great 20th century medicine success stories is the near eradication of the scourge of polio. Since the introduction of a vaccine in the 1950s, cases of polio have dropped by 99 percent.