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Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually grown herbaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana. N. tabacum is the most commonly grown species in the genus Nicotiana, as the plant's leaves are commercially harvested to be processed into tobacco for human use.
Nicotiana (/ ˌ n ɪ k oʊ ʃ i ˈ eɪ n ə, n ɪ ˌ k oʊ-,-k ɒ t i-,-ˈ ɑː n ə,-ˈ æ n ə / [2] [3] [4]) is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae, that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, Southwestern Africa and the South Pacific.
Chaplin, a director of the USDA Research Laboratory at Oxford, North Carolina, [14] had described the need for a higher nicotine tobacco plant in the trade publication World Tobacco in 1977, [11] and had bred a number of high-nicotine strains based on a hybrid of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica, [14] but they were weak and would blow ...
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent variant N. rustica is also used in some countries.
Nicotiana attenuata Torrey ex S. Watson – coyote tobacco [2] Nicotiana azambujae L. B. Smith & Downs [2] Nicotiana benavidesii Goodsp. [2] Nicotiana benthamiana Domin [2] – benth, benthi; Nicotiana bonariensis Lehm. [2] Nicotiana burbidgeae Symon [2] Nicotiana cavicola N. T. Burb. [2] Nicotiana clevelandii A. Gray [2] – Cleveland's ...
N. rustica (called Aztec tobacco, strong tobacco, thuốc lào in Vietnam, mapacho in South America, and makhorka (Russian: маxорка) in Russia) in particular contains much more nicotine than N. tabacum and other species of Nicotiana, and forms the basis of a number of unique tobacco products, as well as typically noncommercial ...
Tobacco inflorescence, Nicotiana tabacum. Anthocercideae G.Don: This tribe, endemic to Australia, contains 31 species in seven genera. Molecular phylogenetic studies of the tribe indicate it is the sister of Nicotiana, and the genera Anthocercis, Anthotroche, Grammosolen, and Symonanthus are monophyletic. Some characteristics are also thought ...
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. The genus contains several species, of which Nicotiana tabacum is the most commonly grown. Nicotiana rustica follows second, containing higher concentrations of nicotine.