The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A ...

Plants send distress signals when under attack from pests, drought, or disease, but these signals are often invisible to the ...

Only a portion of the tobacco inside a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. A significant amount of the shredded brown innards of most modern cigarettes is a paper product called ...

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn't unheard ...

This sensor measures hydrogen peroxide, a marker of stress in soybean and tobacco plant leaves. Credit must be given to the creator. Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted. No derivatives ...

Last month, a monoclonal antibody produced in the leaves of tobacco plants entered phase I clinical trials in the United Kingdom. The antibody, known as P2G12, recognizes an HIV surface protein and is ...

Therefore, early detection—before leaves visibly discolor ... The researchers tested their patches on live, healthy soybean and tobacco plants and compared them to stressed bacteria-infected ...