tobacco

…diplomat and scholar who introduced tobacco to the French court in the 16th century, which gave rise to the culture of snuffing and to the plant’s eventual dissemination and popularization throughout Europe.

…the genus of tobacco cultivars Nicotiana in recognition of Nicot’s role in popularizing the plant. (The plant Nicot knew was probably N. rustica.) Nicot’s name was also immortalized by the term nicotine, the name given to the active ingredient in tobacco, first isolated from the plant’s leaves in 1828.

, tobacco) and a narrow-leaved monocotyledon (e.g., maize [corn]) will serve as examples.

…drug plants, is Nicotiana (tobacco), which has 95 species, mainly in western South America but with outlying groups in Mexico and Australia and isolated species on oceanic islands and in southwestern Africa. Physalis (Mexico) and Lycium (temperate regions) have 50 or more species each, and there are about eight…

Tobacco is perhaps the world’s most economically important drug plant, generating huge incomes in the agricultural, manufacturing, and merchandising sectors in most world economies and also huge outlays in health sectors that treat the effects its use has on human populations. Tobacco products are…

…place in the roots of tobacco plants, where nitrogen is incorporated into compounds that have moved to the roots through the phloem as sugars. If a tomato shoot is grafted onto a tobacco rootstock, nicotine-containing tomato leaves are formed. On the other hand, a tobacco shoot grafted onto a tomato…