Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv Samsun NN) leaves accumulate a cytoplasmic/nuclear lectin, called Nictaba, in response to methyl jasmonate. To check whether, and if so to what extent, the specific induction of this lectin applies to related species, a collection of 19 Nicotiana species--covering 12 Nicotiana sections and eight Nicotiana tabacum cultivars--was screened for their capability to s...

Rabies virus glycoprotein produced in Nicotiana benthamiana is an immunogenic antigen mice | Youngmin Park, Hyangju Kang, Kyungmin Min, Nam Hyung Kim, Minhee In-Ohk Ouh, Ha-Hyun Jae-Young Song, Dong-Kun Yang, Eun-Ju Sohn, Sangmin Lee Agricultural Journals

Miraculin, a taste modifier, is protein that was first isolated from miracle fruit (Richadella dulcifica). It can change sour into sweet when acids are consumed, although it does not elicit response. Miraculin may have the potential in industry as substitute for sugars and artificial sweeteners. Since plant has low productivity, mass production of miraculin limited. Transgenic hairy root cultur...

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/...