Here’s a concise update on Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) with an emphasis on recent research and notable trends.
Genomics and genome resources have advanced, with recent work detailing assembly improvements and new cultivar sequences that enhance our understanding of nicotine biosynthesis and other metabolic pathways. This supports targeted breeding and biotechnological applications while refining models of subgenome expression in the allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum.[3][7][9]
Biotechnological use of tobacco as a biofactory continues to be explored. Projects like NEWCOTIANA aim to harness Nicotiana species for producing high-value compounds, vaccines, and antibodies using advanced breeding techniques, signaling a shift from traditional smoking tobaccos to multipurpose plant platforms.[1][2]
Interest in regulatory, biosafety, and public engagement aspects remains important as researchers develop NPBT (new plant breeding technique) tools in tobacco. These efforts stress careful assessment of product quality, biosafety, and societal impacts while enabling precision improvement of tobacco varieties for non-nicotine uses.[2]
Related notes: recent reviews and editorials highlight the evolving landscape of tobacco genomics, including sequencing retrospectives and prospects that underpin future breeding and functional studies in Nicotiana tabacum and related species.[8][3]
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Nicotiana tabacum is an allotetraploid hybrid of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis and a model organism in genetics. However, features of subgenome evolution, expression coordination, genetic diversity and complex traits regulation ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govInvestigating plant genomes offers crucial foundational resources for exploring various aspects of plant biology and applications, such as functional genomic...
www.frontiersin.orgThe Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
www.biodiversitylibrary.orgCRISPR/Cas9 genome editing for gene inactivation was successfully implemented in *N. tabacum* BY-2 suspension cells. Transformation was carried out in a transgenic line that expressed a red fluorescent protein (mCherry) with a binary vector with the Cas9 coding genes and three guide RNAs targeted to mCherry restriction sites, besides containing a selection gene bialaphos-resistant (bar). … *N. glauca* and anabasine-rich extracts have been shown to be teratogenic in goats when administered on...
www.sciencedirect.comThis datasheet on Nicotiana tabacum covers Identity, Overview, Associated Diseases, Pests or Pathogens, Distribution, Dispersal, Hosts/Species Affected, Biology & Ecology, Environmental Requirements, Natural Enemies, Impacts, Uses, Management, Economics, ...
www.cabidigitallibrary.orgMolecular and genomics studies have revealed metabolic and regulatory genes involved in nicotine biosynthesis, enabling us to develop tobacco plants with u
academic.oup.comResearchers at the Molecular and Cellular Plant Biology Institute (IBMCP) of the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain, along with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), are collaborating for the NEWCOTIANA project, a research and innovation initiative, which makes use of new plant breeding technologies to produce medicine, cosmetics, and other products of added value in tobacco plants.
www.isaaa.orgA group of New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT) has opened unprecedented opportunities in agriculture. Those NPBTs are at least as efficient and often more precise than previous traditional and GM techniques, while circumventing the introduction of heritable transgenes from...
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