Since then, Dominican tobacco has become known as some of the highest-quality on the market thanks to thriving operations and ...

Because the leaves are sold by the pound, a farmer must “top” a plant after it blooms (to break off the blooms) so that the majority of growth goes to the leaves. Toppers and suckers are also removed ...

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.

area who still raise tobacco. Armando Aguirre sits down to enjoy some lunch in the drying barn among leaves harvested that morning. Growing tobacco is labor-intensive work, requiring about 200 ...

and has been used to connect a tobacco plant with two distant species, according to the team of scientists from Nagoya University and elsewhere. The researchers expect their discovery to lead to a ...