The starchy vegetable emerged 9 million years ago in the forming Andes mountains — a result of natural interbreeding between an ancient tomato plant and potato-like species that lacked the engorged ...

Overrepresentation of Solanaceae species used for food. Credit: Horticulture Research (2024). DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhae205 ...

Hello! This weeks video is a tobacco plant. This is for educational purposes only, smoking tobacco is bad for you :) "Nicotiana rustica, commonly known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco, is a ...

The study describes predictions of 98 Rubisco enzymes at key moments in the evolutionary history of plants in the Solanaceae family, which include tomato, pepper, potato, eggplant, and tobacco ...

The study describes predictions of 98 Rubisco enzymes at key moments in the evolutionary history of plants in the Solanaceae family, which include tomato, pepper, potato, eggplant and tobacco.

An image of a tomato flower (center) surrounded by flowers from tobacco (white and pink) and petunia (red). All three are all members of the Solanaceae family of plants, which also includes the ...

Previous studies have found that cigarette smoking and other forms of tobacco, also a Solanaceae plant, reduced relative risk of Parkinson's disease. However, experts have not confirmed if ...

Nicotine is a chemical found in plants from the Solanaceae family and is produced in particularly high amounts in tobacco plants. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system and is what makes ...

The glandular trichomes of many species in the Solanaceae family play an important role in plant defense. These epidermal outgrowths exhibit specialized secondary metabolism, including the production ...

Mirco Montefiori ¹, Cyril Brendolise ¹, Andrew P. Dare ¹, Kui Lin-Wang ¹, Kevin M. Davies ², Roger P. Hellens ¹³⁴, Andrew C. Allan ¹⁵, In the Solanaceae, a hierarchy of bHLHs confer distinct target ...