Myth: Tobacco Plants Are Only For Smoking: Difference between revisions
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===2022: [https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/03/29/the-future-of-meat-the-tobacco-plant/ The future of meat: The tobacco plant?]=== | ===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. | *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]=== | |||
*"An international team of scientists has genetically engineered tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) with a fungal bioluminescence system. This biological light can be used by scientists for observing the inner workings of plants as well as for practical aesthetic purposes, most notably for creating glowing flowers and other ornamental plants." | |||
**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." | |||
===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]=== | ||