Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is an important cash crop to most farmers in Western and Central Zones of Tanzania [1]. However, the yield adversely affected by low soil fertility [2]. The nutritional requirement for provide potential yield-is high requires huge amount nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K) proper growth development roots [3–7]. After being transplanted fields, tobacco see...

BACKGROUND The introduction of pharmaceutical traits in tobacco for commercial production could benefit from the utilization of a transgene bioconfinement system. It has been observed that interspecific F1Nicotiana hybrids (Nicotiana tabacum × Nicotiana glauca) are sterile and thus proposed that hybrids could be suitable bioconfined hosts for biomanufacturing. We genetically tagged hybrids with...

Molecular farming has been considered as a secure and economical approach for production of biopharmaceuticals. Human TNF Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) as a promising biopharmaceutical candidate has been produced in different expression hosts. However, little attention has been paid to molecular farming of the TRAIL in spite of numerous advantages of plant expression systems. Theref...

The complete mRNA sequence of one tobacco (nicotiana tabacum) gene—guanosine monophosphate (GMP)synthase, was amplified using the rapid amplification cDNA ends methods. full-length GMP synthase gene 2,127bp containing a 1,617 bp open reading frame, which encodes protein 538 amino acids. Sequence analysis revealed that shares high homology with wood tobacco(99%), nicotiana attenuata(99%), toment...

Soil bacteria Agrobacterium are able to transfer fragments of their plasmids, so-called T-DNA, into plants. T-DNA integrated plants genome is called cellular (cT-DNA) [1]. Plants transformed in nature considered natural genetically modified organisms (nGMOs). For the first time, nGMOs were described within genus Nicotiana. To date, more than 50 nGM species known [2, 3], among which nGMO Nicotia...