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 ...

One of my favorite plants in my garden is nicotiana (Nicotiana sylvestris), also known as flowering tobacco. The plants need almost no care and bloom most of the spring, summer and autumn. The flowers ...

This week, I ran into an old flower friend. On top of being fun to grow, learning about flowering tobacco introduced me to the invisible world of plant communication chemicals. Able to change its ...

Scientists describe a gene in Nicotiana attenuata which enables the plant to solve the dilemma that arises when a pollinator is also an herbivore. NaTPS38 regulates the production of ...

The high disease resistance of the amphidiploid hybrid of Nicotiana glutinosa × Nicotiana debneyi is associated with high constitutive levels of two phenolic compounds as analysed by high-performance ...

Grafting is a horticultural technique that joins plants together by means of tissue regeneration, combining desirable characteristics of both plants. Generally, grafts have been thought to be ...

Akkue musa, anabasine, Brazilian tree tobacco, buena moza, California tree tobacco, cestrum, chlorinated amides, coneton, corneton, cotinine, coyote tobacco, don juan ...

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 ...

Found at truck stop in Australia, Nicotiana insecticida is the first wild tobacco species reported to kill insects. The new tobacco does not appear to be carnivorous, but rather uses its sticky hairs ...