the solanaceae plants produce a variety of interesting biologically active products including the steroid alkaloids solanidine, nicotine and tropane alkaloids. putrescine n-methyltransferase (pmt) is an enzyme that catalyses s-adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation of putrescine in one of the primary steps of nicotine and tropane alkaloids biosynthesis pathway. two tobacco members of the ap2/...

Efforts to develop American chestnuts [Castanea dentata, (Marsh.) Borkh], with improved resistance the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica (Murr.) Barr, and Phytophthora root rot, caused by Phythophthora cinnamomi Rands, are ongoing. Establishing founder populations of will require understanding ecological silvicultural requirements species. In areas where white tailed deer (Odocoi...

THE activity of phosphatase in the bean, potato, radish and wheat at different stages of their life histories was reported in a previous paper [Ignatieff & Wasteneys, 1936]. The small amounts of material available however made the investigation of the distribution of the enzyme in the various parts of the flower impossible. Such data are needed to complete our knowledge of the distribution of t...

In a previous publication ^ the general situation with respect to the wildfire and the blackfire or angular leaf spot diseases of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) was discussed and the need for explaining the occurrence of leaf spot epidemics was indicated. It was shown that epidemics of wildfire {Bdcterium tabacum Wolf and Foster) are conditional on the occurrence of leaf water soaking, and the ...

Tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, and loose pipe tobacco, contain the dried, processed leaves of the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica or Nicotiana tabacum. All forms of tobacco contain nicotine, an extremely addictive drug that can act as both a central nervous system stimulant and depressant. In addition to nicotine, tobacco contains thousands of other chem...

Antibody based products are not widely available to address multiple global health challenges due to high costs, limited manufacturing capacity, and long manufacturing lead times. Nicotiana-based manufacturing of antibody products may now begin to address these challenges as a result of revolutionary advances in transient expression and altered glycosylation pathways. This review provides examp...