Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in nuclear DNA in plants serves as a ...

Linwood Scott III climbs two-story tobacco cropping machines with real agility and apparently no thought to falling. The sixth-generation tobacco farmer is proud of his machinery, upgraded 20 years ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Listening to their distress calls could one day save water and help farmers. Listening to their distress calls ...

Hello! This weeks video is a tobacco plant. This is for educational purposes only, smoking tobacco is bad for you :) "Nicotiana rustica, commonly known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco, is a ...

INDIAN MOUND, Tenn. (WTVF) — Bobby Darnell isn't sure what he's going to do. Last week, all of his farm equipment stood idle, sans the fertilizer truck getting stuck in the mud. The amount of rain ...

Tweaking one plant gene can increase desirable traits, but changing the same gene in another type of plant may not yield the same result. A tobacco plant with a mutation engineered in the clv3 gene ...