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 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 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.

Plants that we extract medicines from today, such as yew trees, are becoming endangered. An emerging field is engineering ...