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 ...

Plants, however, only need soil, water and sunlight to grow. Tobacco is the largest leafy non-food crop. It is very amenable to genetic modification, and is an absolute power-house when it comes ...

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 ...

A hack to the photosynthesis of tobacco increased its growth by 40 percent ... This snafu, which occurs roughly 20 percent of the time, results in a plant making a toxic chemical called glycolate. To ...

For example, the chemicals found in tobacco, a nightshade plant, can cause cancer. The alkaloid found in nightshades is solanine. It functions as an insecticide while the plant is growing.