Q: I have been reading about using tobacco tea as an organic pesticide. The internet has several sites that explain how to make a tea with tobacco leaves or with cigarette butts. Once the tea is made ...

Nicotine, a potent insecticidal alkaloid unique to the nightshade family, has been employed in agriculture as a pesticide ...

For centuries, scientists have known that tobacco plants produce nicotine -- but no one could figure out exactly how they do it. Now, a team of Chinese researchers has finally solved the puzzle. In a ...

Scientists in China and Germany recently identified a novel compound in wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata leaves that confers broad resistance to Empoasca leafhopper pests. The research employed a ...

Scientists at Zhejiang University have engineered plants that glow on their own by inserting optimized fungal genes, ...