Crazy Diamond Bioluminescent houseplants are now a thing, and they're gonna put those old Chia Pets to shame. In a press release, the synthetic biology startup Light Bio announced that its groundbreaking bioluminescent petunias, named "Firefly Petunias," are now available for preorder in the US, and honestly, the $29 the company is charging seems like […]
With a deftness that comes from four decades of experience, Aristo Torres sorts tobacco leaves at a factory in Nicaragua a country making great strides in the manufacture and export of cigars.He explained with great patience and obvious pride his job of making the "bonchero" the basic mixture of leaves that goes into every cigar.
Researchers discovered that they could increase intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) in field-grown tobacco plants without affecting photosynthetic rates or biomass output by overexpressing the sugar-sensing enzyme hexokinase.