Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard ...

Illicit tobacco operations are not run by genuine farmers but by organised crime syndicates. These activities divert vital funds from the community ...

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.

This suggests that changing environmental conditions during growth in the field have a greater ... with stem material from unmodified tobacco and tobacco plants with modifications that reduce ...