In several experiments, the wearable accurately identified the presence of hydrogen peroxide in groups of plants exposed to a ...

The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A ...

Plants send distress signals when under attack from pests, drought, or disease, but these signals are often invisible to the ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard ...

This reusable patch (shown on the underside of a tobacco leaf) could help growers make decisions earlier to maintain the health of their crops through earlier detection of plant stress.

This is where tobacco could make a difference. Much like the recombinant cells we currently use, plants can also be genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. Plants, however, only need ...