JENA, Germany, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Nicotiana attenuata plants defend themselves by producing toxins when attacked by hawkmoth caterpillars, German scientists said. Hawkmoths pollinate nicotiana plants ...

A Nicotiana plant shows spotty photobleaching of leaves thanks to gene editing accomplished with a virus. The new technique allows edited traits to be passed to the next generation while avoiding some ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...

Vaccines are currently the most effective prevention measure against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, ...

Nicotiana sylvestris is one of my favorite heirloom flowers, and each year draws a hummingbird or two, as well as hummingbird moths. The tall, thick-stemmed annual sets seed throughout my garden and ...

Over the many years that I have been a Master Gardener, I have heard people talk about Nicotiana in the garden, but I didn’t pay much attention. Then fellow Master Gardeners Gary Thompson and Noble ...

Nicotiana or, Flowering Tobacco as it’s commonly called, is an easy to grow, fragrant annual that is a member of the tobacco family. This is a plant that, despite having a high concentration of ...

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Scientists have found that the tobacco plant Nicotiana can maintain grafts between a broad range of species. Using Nicotiana as an intermediary, they succeeded in indirectly grafting a tomato scion ...

The organized lignocellulosic assemblies of cell walls provide the structural integrity required for the large statures of terrestrial plants. Silencing two CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (CAD) genes ...

Nicotiana is a popular enough genus in the garden, and sold widely as bedding at this time of year. But maybe it would be even more popular if gardeners knew how much interesting biology lurked behind ...