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===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]=== | ||
*"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." | *"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." | ||
===2016: [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-016-0395-5 Alternative use of tobacco as a sustainable crop for seed oil, biofuel, and biomass]=== | |||
*"This study shows for the first time the cultivation feasibility in Italy of a small-size tobacco variety selected for high seed production. With a further optimization of the cultivation protocol to increase the oil yield and to use the by-products, tobacco can really become a novel industrial crop providing renewable sources for both biofuel and biomass as well." | |||
===2008: Philippines National Tobacco Administration: [https://nta.da.gov.ph/programs_uses.html Other Uses for tobacco plants]=== | ===2008: Philippines National Tobacco Administration: [https://nta.da.gov.ph/programs_uses.html Other Uses for tobacco plants]=== | ||