Genetically Modified Tobacco Could Smoke Other Crops as Energy Source
Posted by Scientific American - Energy & Sustainability on 5 January, 2010
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Tobacco plants produce abundant biomass in more than 100 countries and could — with certain genetic modifications — be used to produce abundant biofuels, researchers say.
Researchers at the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, have successfully tested genetic manipulations to increase oil accumulation in the leaves of tobacco plants, according to a paper published online in Plant Biotechnology Journal .
