Sentences with phrase «from tobacco plants»

Pharmaceutical companies are creating experimental treatments derived from tobacco plants that were turned into living pharmaceutical factories.

(Indeed, e-cigs are considered «tobacco products» by government agencies because their nicotine comes from tobacco plants.)

Seeds from tobacco plants and from a relative of the mustard plant also rode outside the ISS during the same 18 months on the EXPOSE platform, and 23 percent managed to sprout afterward.

The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

Not exact matches

Firefly is designed to vaporize tobacco, but the engineers test «any plant or herb,» he says, from sage, oregano, and even marijuana and coffee.

22nd Century Group, Inc. (XXII), a plant biotechnology company that provides tobacco harm reduction and development of proprietary hemp / cannabis strains, rose from the number three spot in August to number two in September.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

The search for food is linked to other areas in the olfactory center of female tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) than the search for plants to best lay eggs, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found.

Crops and weeds from this plant family, which includes tobacco, produce chemicals such as nicotine that deter feeding by most insects, but not M. sexta, which makes its physiology especially interesting to scientists.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

Chloroplast DNA is separate from the genome DNA in the plant nucleus, and the large numbers of these tiny organelles in the cell allow huge volumes of the coagulation protein to accumulate in each tobacco leaf.

The inventors claim that leaves from the modified plants retain all the ingredients that give tobacco its taste and smell, but contain less nicotine.

A team of scientists from the University of Illinois has devised a revolutionary way of boosting crop yield of tobacco plants by 20 percent by adjusting their genetic makeup.

NT4.1.4 No NESTT, transgenic tobacco plant from control tank; NT4.1.5 NESTT, transgenic tobacco plant exposed to TNT - NESTT.

But researchers at Cornell University, USA and Rothamsted Research, UK claim they've managed to solve one piece of the puzzle: they've modified tobacco plants that produce functional rubisco from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus.

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The subjects of the work include; tobacco plants, corn stalks, women with paper plate faces, a whale, hot dogs, Grecian urns, the folds of the canvas itself, a silver sail; symbols from Guenther's personal lexicon alluding to both familiar and foreign stories.

Yeah, this old Volunteer who grew up planting, tending and harvesting tobacco only to later acknowledge the error of his ways, is generously offering to help save us from ourselves.