5238 results about "Nicotiana tabacum" patented technology

The present invention provides a method for producing plants with a desired phenotypic trait which comprises subjecting plants to mutagenesis, screening chimeric progeny for plants having the desired phenotypic trait, and propagating the survivors. In an embodiment, the phenotypic trait comprises an altered amino acid content. Preferably, the technique is used to generate Nicotiana tobacum plant lines having an increase in at least one amino acid. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides improved Nicotiana tobacum plant lines producing at least 1.35 nmole of threonine per milligram of dry plant weight. These plants are useful for improving the flavor and aroma of the tobacco.

The present invention generally relates to tobacco and tobacco products having a reduced amount of nicotine and / or tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNA). More specifically, several ways to make tobacco plants that have reduced nicotine and TSNA levels have been discovered. Embodiments include tobacco harvested from said tobacco plants, cured tobacco from said tobacco plants, tobacco products made with said cured tobacco and methods of making these compositions.

Aspects of the present invention concern tobacco having reduced nicotine and nitrosamines, which is used to manufacture consumer tobacco products, and methods to produce such tobacco. More specifically, embodiments include methods to reduce nicotine and nitrosamines in tobacco crops by applying auxin, auxin analogs, and jasmonate antagonists during the cultivation of such tobacco crops. Tobacco generated using said methods and consumer tobacco products obtained therefrom are also embodiments.

An improved vaporizer unit and water pipe assembly for extracting ingestible vapors from tobacco and herbs. Preferable embodiments of said assembly may comprise blown glass, colored glass, and adaptations for the safety of the user and to protect against breakability of said assembly. Other preferred features and embodiments include but are not limited to a cage secured to protect a central vessel housing a heating means, a hanger for storing, enhanced airflow, enhanced draw, and portability.

The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.

Disclosed herein are GNGN and G1 / G2 antibodies that recognize and bind various FcRs and C1q. Also disclosed herein are glycan-optiminzed antibodies, predominantly of the GNGN or G1 / G2 glycoform, with enhanced Fcγ receptor binding achieved through CHO, Nicotiana benthamiana and yeast manufacturing systems. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, as well as expression vectors and host cells including these nucleic acids are also disclosed herein. Methods and pharmaceutical compositions including the monoclonal antibodies are provided herein for the prevention and / or therapeutic treatment of viral infections, cancers and inflammatory diseases.

The invention discloses a hametz used for fermenting tobacco and applications thereof. The hametz is characterized by comprising three strains of Bacillus subtilis, lactobacillus and microzyme, the viable count ratio of which is 10 to 50: 2 to 30: 2 to 30. The hametz can ferment waste material of the tobacco or the flavor used for producing natural cigarettes by using the tobacco and can be used for tobacco fermentation. The flavor used for the natural cigarettes prepared by the hametz has a velvet fragrance and can remarkably increase the fragrance, reduce the unpurified gas and reduce the thrill as well when the flavor is used in the cigarettes, thus leading the smoke gas to be lingering and smooth. The hametz used for fermenting tobacco leaves can remarkably shorten the alcoholizing time and improve the quality of the tobacco leaves.

The application provides, in part, vectors based on novel tobacco rattle virus replicons, as well as methods for using such vectors and transgenic plants.

The invention relates to an oligochitosan and plant source substance-containing agricultural composition and applications, wherein the plant source substance is prepared by one or more of derris, tripterygium glycosides, tobacco, pyrethrum cinerariifolium, tagetes erecta, eupatorium adenophorum, radix stemonae, cayenne pepper, macleaya cordata, radix sophorae flavescentis, pyrethrum cinerariifolium, chinaberry, excoecaria sebifera, black nightshade herb, rhododendron sinensis sweet, coriaria sinica maxim, garlic, fruit of cubeb litsea tree, yellow flowered rhododendron, thymelaea, radix euphorbiae lantu, lysimachia foenum-graecum hance, peppermint, calamendiol, cortex cinnamomi, black pepper, artemisia scoparia, rhizoma alpiniae officinarum, mugwort, pepper, cynanchum komarovii, chinese honeylocust abnormal fruit, stramonium, ginko, camphora officinarum, caulis spatholobi, chinese mosla herb, herba asari, red sandalwood, erythrina indica, myrsine africana and fructus cnidii. The composition is low in people and livestock and non-target organism toxicity, fast degraded in the environment, low in residue, and free from environmental pollution. The oligochitosan and certain plant source substances in the composition are mixed and can achieve synergistic interaction, and the usage amount of the plant source substances can be reduced.

A method of modifying the content of certain chemical compounds in tobacco materials is provided, the method including treatment of a tobacco plant or portion thereof with at least one enzyme. For example, the method may modify the content of tobacco smoke toxicant precursors in tobacco materials, which can result in a modification in toxicant production when the tobacco material is exposed to elevated temperatures. The type of tobacco plant or portion thereof treated according to the invention can be, for example, a tobacco seed, a tobacco seedling, an immature live plant, a mature live plant, a harvested plant, or a plant derivative. Smoking articles and other tobacco products including such enzyme-treated tobacco materials are also provided.

A full nutrition fertilizer of biology type and its producing method belongs to organic complex fertilizer field in biology type. The components of the full nutrition fertilizer is 20-50% of organic waste liquid, 10-30% of urea, 8-15% of diammomium phosphate, 10-25% of potassium sulfate, 5-20% of medium trace element, 1-5% of microbial inoculum, 0-0.2% of root-promoting agent; 0-2% of solutizer, effective viable count content of the microbial inoculum of more than 1010 / g. The fertilizer is produced by adding the urea, diammomium phosphate, potassium sulfate, medium trace element, root-promoting agent, solutizer into organic waste liquid and blending uniformly, then adding microbial inoculum. The invention uses the wastes to produce fertilizer with a low cost a high availability and a good prospect in the fertilizer industry. The fertilizer can be widely applied to the vegetables, melon and fruits, food, tobacco, forests and different commercial crops.

This invention discloses a method for manufacturing an insecticidal organic fertilizer. The fertilizer is composed of human or animal excrement, straw powder, tree leaves, wine lees, drug residues, sawdust, edible fungi residues, furfural residues, lime powder, fermentation agent, phosphorus- and potassium-leaching bacteria, tobacco powder, Ricinus communis leaf powder, Zanthoxylum cake powder, Datura and Strychnos nuxvomica. The fertilizer has such advantages as wide raw material resources, low cost, convenient usage, abundant nutrition, low fertilizer application amount, high efficiency, no toxicity, no pollution and no residues.

The present invention provides a microbe composition, tobacco-dedicated biological organic fertilizer containing the composition, its usage method. The microbe composition comprises aztobacter sp., pseudomonas fluorescence, Bacillus megaterium, bacillus mucilaginosus and bacteria capable of preventing and treating plant disease and insect pests. The microbe composition is mixed according to proportion with oligochitosan, lignite, grass charcoal, and bean cake and fermented to make bacteria powder fertilizer, and further added with potassium-enriching shale, bentonite and water-keeping agent to make bacteria granule fertilizer. The tobacco-dedicated biological organic fertilizer contains the above-mentioned bacteria powder fertilizer and granule fertilizer which contains natural mineral and good organic substance, C / N value being large, which fit the growth rule of tobacco plant and promote potassium fertilizer efficiency and possesses long-lasting potassium-supply capability and provides effective ingredient for tobacco.

The invention is a chewing tobacco substitute made from natural leaves and additives which simulate the taste and consistency of chewing tobacco to which a nicotine compound is added. The invention allows those addicted to chewing tobacco to chew and receive nicotine without incurring the other harmful side effects of tobacco. In one embodiment of the invention the product is provided with varying levels of nicotine.

The invention discloses Bacillus subtilis, which is named Bacillus subtilis. The Bacillus subtilis was collected in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on January 15th, 2009, with a collection number of CGMCC No.2843. The Bacillus subtilis strain disclosed by the invention is screened from tobacco leaf habitats. Experiments prove that the fermentation liquor of the strain has a strong inhibition effect on fungal pathogens such as Alternaria alternate and pepper anthracnose and demonstrates high prevention effect on Alternaria alternate, tobacco black shank, pepper anthracnose, tomato wilt, phytophthora melonis Katsura, verticillium dahlia and the like and has high growth promoting effects on tobacco, pepper, cucumber, tomato and eggplant. Therefore, the Bacillus subtilis disclosed by the invention can be used for preparing biological bactericides for preventing and controlling fungi in tobacco and vegetables and can be used for preparing growth promoting agents for promoting the growth of tobacco or vegetables.

The invention discloses an electronic cigarette liquid rich in plant flavone. The electronic cigarette liquid comprises the following raw materials in percentage by mass: 50-70% of propylene glycol, 5-10% of glycerinum, 5-15% of deionized water, 5-15% of natural flavone extract, 4-8% of tobacco extract, 2-6% of tobacco essence and 2-6% of thickener, wherein the natural flavone extract is the extract obtained by distilling by vapour or extracting a plant mixture by ethyl alcohol, and the total flavonoid content is 20-50% by total flavonoid content; the plant mixture is composed of chuzhou chrysanthemum, iris tectorum roots, propolis, orange peel, grape, peanut coat, lily, radix puerariae, scutellaria baicalensis, roxburgh rose and green tea. The electronic cigarette liquid disclosed by the invention is capable of meeting the smoking needs of smokers; meanwhile, the rich plant flavone has the effects of resisting oxidization, preventing aging, and adjusting immunity, and also has a healthcare effect on heart and cerebral vessels to a certain extent.

Compositions and methods for reducing the level of nornicotine and N′-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) in tobacco plants and plant parts thereof are provided. The compositions comprise isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides for a root-specific nicotine demethylases, CYP82E10, and variants thereof, that are involved in the metabolic conversion of nicotine to nornicotine in these plants. Compositions of the invention also include tobacco plants, or plant parts thereof, comprising a mutation in a gene encoding a CYP82E10 nicotine demethylase, wherein the mutation results in reduced expression or function of the CYP82E10 nicotine demethylase. Seed of these tobacco plants, or progeny thereof, and tobacco products prepared from the tobacco plants of the invention, or from plant parts or progeny thereof, are also provided. Methods for reducing the level of nornicotine, or reducing the rate of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine, in a tobacco plant, or plant part thereof are also provided. The methods comprise introducing into the genome of a tobacco plant a mutation within at least one allele of each of at least three nicotine demethylase genes, wherein the mutation reduces expression of the nicotine demethylase gene, and wherein a first of these nicotine demethylase genes encodes a root-specific nicotine demethylase involved in the metabolic conversion of nicotine to nornicotine in a tobacco plant or a plant part thereof. The methods find use in the production of tobacco products that have reduced levels of nornicotine and its carcinogenic metabolite, NNN, and thus reduced carcinogenic potential for individuals consuming these tobacco products or exposed to secondary smoke derived from these products.

Disclosed are agents (e.g., peptides, polypeptides, proteins, small molecules, antibodies, and antibody fragments that target senescent cells) and methods of their use for imaging senescent cells in vivo and for treating or preventing cancer, age-related disease, tobacco-related disease, or other diseases and disorders related to or caused by cellular senescence in a mammal. The methods include administering one or more of the agents of the invention to a mammal, e.g., a human. The agents, which specifically bind to senescent cells, can be labeled with a radioactive label or a therapeutic label, e.g., a cytotoxic agent.

The invention provides a method of extracting sucrose esters from Oriental tobacco, the method comprising: providing a Oriental tobacco material; contacting the solid Oriental tobacco material with a supercritical fluid, such as supercritical carbon dioxide, for a time and under conditions sufficient to extract sucrose esters from the Oriental tobacco into the supercritical fluid; and separating the supercritical fluid comprising extracted sucrose esters from the Oriental tobacco. The resulting extract can comprise more than 90% by weight of tetra-acyl sucrose esters, and can be used as a flavor additive for tobacco materials used in smoking articles.

Methods and compositions are provided for amplifying RNA from an RNA template. Methods and compositions are further provided for detecting an RNA in an RNA containing sample. Compositions used for the amplification of RNA from RNA include a RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase, a RNA helicase, and an energy source. Illustrative RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase enzymes are derived from the tomato or tobacco plant, while illustrative RNA helicase enzymes include the eIF4A and eIF4B proteins.

The invention discloses a composition for preventing and treating virus diseases of crops, which is prepared from a medicament A for preventing and treating virus diseases, a medicament B for killing pests with piercing-sucking mouthparts, a plant growth regulator, a plant nutrient ingredient C, an assistant and a carrier. The medicament-fertilizer composition realizes multiple purposes, can prevent and treat virus diseases and control the main transmitting vectors of the virus diseases such as aphids, plant hoppers and the like, is capable of adjusting the growth of crops and complementing nutrition to crops, improves the disease resistance of crops while enhancing the yield and quality of crops, and can be used for preventing and treating virus diseases of crops including rice, tobacco, cucumbers, tomatoes and the like.

The invention provides a comprehensive utilization method for planting edible fungi and producing artificial grass peat by using waste cabo generated in a tobacco threshing redrying plant as main raw materials. Raw materials forming culture materials are as follows: 60-100 parts of cabo and 1-5 parts of lime or / and plaster; and 1-40 parts of accessories also can be added. A bag cultivation methodis perfectly selected for a planting process, comprising the steps of dosing, bagging, sterilizing, inoculating, culturing and the like. After the harvest, waste residue of the culture materials containing the cabo is directly crushed to be in a puffy fiber, scrap, or powder state , or is crushed after being fermented and decomposed, and then is dried to obtain the artificial grass peat product. The artificial grass peat is mixed with packing materials such as perlite, roseite and the like to obtain plant culture substrate. The invention has centralized and stable raw materials so as to be beneficial to the massive production; the production cost is 1 / 3 lower than the common method; the planted edible fungi is large and thick, green and safe; and the artificial grass peat is prepared by the waste residue so as to realize high-efficiency comprehensive utilization of the waste cabo.

Four genes, A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT, can be influenced for increasing nicotinic alkaloid levels in Nicotiana plants, as well as for synthesizing nicotinic alkaloids in non-nicotine producing plants and cells. In particular, overexpressing one or more of A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT may be used to increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Non-nicotine producing cells can be engineered to produce nicotine and related compounds by overexpressing A622 and

The invention discloses a process for biochemically treating cut stems, which comprises working flows of stem washing, deep stem washing, surface dehydration of tobacco stems, stem baking, stem cutting, enzyme treatment, large-scale feeding and the like. The process, through deep stem washing, reduces the content of chloride ions and nitrate of the tobacco stems, improves the mouthfeel, and improves the safety; the process, through compound enzyme treatment, makes components which are not favorable for the taste in the tobacco stems reduced and components which are favorable for the taste increased so as to finally improve the inherent quality of the cut stems; and the process takes the processed cut stems as a carrier to add a natural tobacco extract to supplement the natural tobacco aroma, thereby improving the taste quality of the tobacco stems, and finally widening the using range of the cut stems.

Multiple shoot structures are induced from plant tissues (e.g., shoot apices or axillary buds on an artificial medium) to produce multiple shoot cultures. These multi-shoot cultures are then transformed by known transformation methods. Plants are subsequently regenerated from the transformed cells. Crops that may be efficiently transformed by this method include plants normally recalcitrant to transformation such as sugar beet, sunflower, soybean, cotton, tobacco, tomato, peanuts, melons, watermelon, squash, Brassica, and pepper.

A microbial preparation for preventing and treating the bacterial wilt, damping-off, etc of plant and promoting growth of palnt contains paenibacillus polymyxa or the fermented liquid obtained by culturing the bacterium.