Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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==Other potential uses for tobacco plants== | ==Other potential uses for tobacco plants== | ||
===2019: Video: [https://www.cornell.edu/video/researchers-make-enzymes-using-tobacco-plants Researchers make much needed enzymes using tobacco plants]=== | |||
*"If we’re not using that cropland to make cigarettes anymore, then perhaps we could use that cropland to make enzymes.” Beth Ahner, professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, shows how tobacco plants can be used to make functional proteins for the manufacture of products such as denim, laundry detergent, paper and ethanol." | |||
===2019: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/tobacco-plants-made-to-produce-useful-compounds/ Tobacco Plants Made to Produce Useful Compounds]=== | ===2019: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/tobacco-plants-made-to-produce-useful-compounds/ Tobacco Plants Made to Produce Useful Compounds]=== | ||