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*"The World Health Organization (WHO) has championed the need for out-of-the-box thinking on vaccine production and supplies to protect the world. But when faced with that very situation, the WHO evoked a 2005 policy, and sentenced a promising made-in-Canada vaccine to a tragic death because of a minority link with a tobacco company...A year ago, officials with the agency refused to endorse a vaccine made by Quebec-based Medicago. It used a plant related to tobacco as the "factory" to produce virus-like particles that taught the immune system to fend off the virus that causes COVID-19...The Medicago technology was also widely seen as having great potential for creating both vaccines and antibody treatments for other conditions, including cancers, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. But the plants used in production are a cousin of the tobacco plant and were supplied by tobacco giant Phillip Morris, which was a minority (21 per cent) shareholder...One advantage Medicago's product had over some of the approved vaccines is that it doesn't have the same cold storage requirement as mRNA shots, and so "would have been more suitable for Africa and places like that," said Watts."
*"The World Health Organization (WHO) has championed the need for out-of-the-box thinking on vaccine production and supplies to protect the world. But when faced with that very situation, the WHO evoked a 2005 policy, and sentenced a promising made-in-Canada vaccine to a tragic death because of a minority link with a tobacco company...A year ago, officials with the agency refused to endorse a vaccine made by Quebec-based Medicago. It used a plant related to tobacco as the "factory" to produce virus-like particles that taught the immune system to fend off the virus that causes COVID-19...The Medicago technology was also widely seen as having great potential for creating both vaccines and antibody treatments for other conditions, including cancers, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. But the plants used in production are a cousin of the tobacco plant and were supplied by tobacco giant Phillip Morris, which was a minority (21 per cent) shareholder...One advantage Medicago's product had over some of the approved vaccines is that it doesn't have the same cold storage requirement as mRNA shots, and so "would have been more suitable for Africa and places like that," said Watts."


==Other potential uses for tobacco plants==
==Food==


===2024: [https://dnascience.plos.org/2024/06/20/can-engineered-tobacco-plants-that-make-human-sugars-improve-infant-formula-and-plant-based-milks/ Can Engineered Tobacco Plants that Make Human Sugars Improve Infant Formula and Plant-Based Milks?]===
===2024: [https://dnascience.plos.org/2024/06/20/can-engineered-tobacco-plants-that-make-human-sugars-improve-infant-formula-and-plant-based-milks/ Can Engineered Tobacco Plants that Make Human Sugars Improve Infant Formula and Plant-Based Milks?]===
*"The researchers call their retooled cells of Nicotiana benthamiana (aka benth or benthi), a close relative of the tobacco plant from Australia, a “photosynthetic platform for the production of diverse human milk oligosaccharides.” The goal is to mimic the difficult-to-synthesize unique blend of sugars required for commercial infant formula to be as close to the real thing, nutritionally, as possible."
*"The researchers call their retooled cells of Nicotiana benthamiana (aka benth or benthi), a close relative of the tobacco plant from Australia, a “photosynthetic platform for the production of diverse human milk oligosaccharides.” The goal is to mimic the difficult-to-synthesize unique blend of sugars required for commercial infant formula to be as close to the real thing, nutritionally, as possible."
===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.
===2015: [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/03/cooking-with-tobacco-food A little tobacco in your chai? Leaf finds its way on to menus around the world]===
*"Tobacco is hitting menus throughout the world, whether it’s in a chicken wing sauce at the Morris House Bistro in Cheyenne, Wyoming; made into flour to dredge onions in like at JK’s Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina; infused into sugar as Naomi Gallego does in her post as Neighborhood Restaurant Group’s pastry chef; or even as whole leaves added to chocolate bars, as at London-based Artisan du Chocolat."
==Fuel==
*See also: Multiple Uses
==Multiple Uses==
===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."
===2008: Philippines National Tobacco Administration: [https://nta.da.gov.ph/programs_uses.html Other Uses for tobacco plants]===
*They share the work they are doing in the following areas:
**Medicinal & Veterinary Product Development
**By-Products & Waste Utilization
**Food & Feed Products Development
**Wood, Pulp & Fiber Product Development
==Other potential uses for tobacco plants==


===2024: [https://leafngrainsociety.com/featured/10-surprising-uses-of-tobacco/ 10 Surprising Uses of Tobacco Around Your Home and Garden]===
===2024: [https://leafngrainsociety.com/featured/10-surprising-uses-of-tobacco/ 10 Surprising Uses of Tobacco Around Your Home and Garden]===
*"Tobacco has been around for centuries, and while it’s most commonly approached in the form of smoking cigars around here, it has many other surprising uses, especially around your home and garden. Let’s dive into ten unexpected ways you can use tobacco that you might not have known about!"
*"Tobacco has been around for centuries, and while it’s most commonly approached in the form of smoking cigars around here, it has many other surprising uses, especially around your home and garden. Let’s dive into ten unexpected ways you can use tobacco that you might not have known about!"
*SNW Team comment: We don't recommend most of these. It would kill good and bad bugs. And there is a virus tobacco plants can spread to tomato plants (based off of memory...)
*SNW Team comment: We don't recommend most of these. It would kill good and bad bugs. And there is a virus tobacco plants can spread to tomato plants (based off of memory...)
===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.


===2020: [https://www.sci.news/biology/glowing-tobacco-plants-08368.html Researchers Create Glowing Tobacco Plants]===
===2020: [https://www.sci.news/biology/glowing-tobacco-plants-08368.html Researchers Create Glowing Tobacco Plants]===
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**Study: [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7610436/ Plants with genetically encoded autoluminescence]
**Study: [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7610436/ Plants with genetically encoded autoluminescence]
***"Autoluminescent plants that express a bacterial bioluminescence gene cluster have not been widely adopted due to requisite expression in plastids and low light output. Alternatively, we have engineered tobacco lines expressing a fungal bioluminescent system, which converts caffeic acid present in all plants into luciferin, and report self-sustained luminescence easily visible to the naked eye. Our findings might underpin development of a suite of imaging tools for plants."
***"Autoluminescent plants that express a bacterial bioluminescence gene cluster have not been widely adopted due to requisite expression in plastids and low light output. Alternatively, we have engineered tobacco lines expressing a fungal bioluminescent system, which converts caffeic acid present in all plants into luciferin, and report self-sustained luminescence easily visible to the naked eye. Our findings might underpin development of a suite of imaging tools for 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]===
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===2019: [https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/19/132948/a-material-derived-from-tobacco-is-as-strong-as-wood-or-plastics/ A material derived from tobacco is as strong as wood or plastics]===
===2019: [https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/19/132948/a-material-derived-from-tobacco-is-as-strong-as-wood-or-plastics/ A material derived from tobacco is as strong as wood or plastics]===
*"This team has found a way to turn cells from tobacco plants into a hugely strong material with wood-like mechanical properties. “We have developed a new method to create natural biocomposite materials based on plant cells,” they say. “[The materials’] stiffness and strength surpass that of commercial plastics of similar density, like polystyrene, and low-density polyethylene, while being entirely biodegradable.”
*"This team has found a way to turn cells from tobacco plants into a hugely strong material with wood-like mechanical properties. “We have developed a new method to create natural biocomposite materials based on plant cells,” they say. “[The materials’] stiffness and strength surpass that of commercial plastics of similar density, like polystyrene, and low-density polyethylene, while being entirely biodegradable.”
===2015: [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/03/cooking-with-tobacco-food A little tobacco in your chai? Leaf finds its way on to menus around the world]===
*"Tobacco is hitting menus throughout the world, whether it’s in a chicken wing sauce at the Morris House Bistro in Cheyenne, Wyoming; made into flour to dredge onions in like at JK’s Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina; infused into sugar as Naomi Gallego does in her post as Neighborhood Restaurant Group’s pastry chef; or even as whole leaves added to chocolate bars, as at London-based Artisan du Chocolat."


===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]===
*They share the work they are doing in the following areas:
**Medicinal & Veterinary Product Development
**By-Products & Waste Utilization
**Food & Feed Products Development
**Wood, Pulp & Fiber Product Development


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