Plant molecular farming (PMF) is a modern, sophisticated technology that utilizes plants' biosynthetic machinery to ...

With this knowledge, the researchers turned to the tobacco plant, whose leaves contain a substance called omithine, which is chemically similar to MPOA and is also converted by the two enzymes.

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally ...

Using newly generated "optogenetic" tobacco plants, research teams from the University of Würzburg's Departments of Plant Physiology and Neurophysiology have investigated how plants process ...

Listen carefully, and a plant may tell you it’s thirsty. Dry tomato and tobacco plants emit distinct ultrasonic clicks, scientists report March 30 in Cell. The noises sound something like a kid ...

Some tobacco plants, like cultivated tobacco, can be poisonous just by handling the leaves. It’s important to confirm what plant you’re looking at and to not touch or eat a plant unless you ...

A plant makes plenty of noise when it’s under stress, new research shows. Humans just haven’t been able to hear it until now. Turns out, tomato plants can get pretty noisy.

This sensor measures hydrogen peroxide, a marker of stress in soybean and tobacco plant leaves. Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.4c02645.

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