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== | ||
===2022: [https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/03/29/the-future-of-meat-the-tobacco-plant/ The future of meat: The tobacco plant?]=== | |||
*Israeli start-up BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants in attempt to overcome the greatest hurdle currently facing the budding cultivated meat industry: scaled production. | |||
===2019: Video: [https://www.cornell.edu/video/researchers-make-enzymes-using-tobacco-plants Researchers make much needed enzymes using tobacco plants]=== | ===2019: Video: [https://www.cornell.edu/video/researchers-make-enzymes-using-tobacco-plants Researchers make much needed enzymes using tobacco plants]=== | ||
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===2010: Patent Application: [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110287681A1/en Textiles and Process for Making Textiles and Dyes from Tobacco Plants]=== | ===2010: Patent Application: [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110287681A1/en Textiles and Process for Making Textiles and Dyes from Tobacco Plants]=== | ||
*"A textile and a dye manufactured from fibers that are derived from tobacco plants and a process for making the textile and dye from the tobacco plants. In a preferred embodiment, the tobacco is organically grown and the entire tobacco plant, including stem and leaves, is utilized to produce the tobacco plant fiber used for making a textile and a natural dye utilized to color the textile or other textiles..." | *"A textile and a dye manufactured from fibers that are derived from tobacco plants and a process for making the textile and dye from the tobacco plants. In a preferred embodiment, the tobacco is organically grown and the entire tobacco plant, including stem and leaves, is utilized to produce the tobacco plant fiber used for making a textile and a natural dye utilized to color the textile or other textiles..." | ||
===2008: Philippines National Tobacco Administration: [https://nta.da.gov.ph/programs_uses.html Other Uses for tobacco plants]=== | |||
*Medicinal & Veterinary Product Development | |||
*By-Products & Waste Utilization | |||
*Food & Feed Products Development | |||
*Wood, Pulp & Fiber Product Development | |||
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