Taxon: Nicotiana tabacum L.

Common names:

• tobacco   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• yan cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• tabac   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:93.) – French
  
• tabac commun   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Tabak   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• virginischer Tabak   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• tabacco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• dambae   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:111) – Transcribed Korean
  
• tabaco   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• virginiatobak   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: research in plant biology   (fide Amer J Bot 93:875. 2006)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (source of nicotine fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Social: masticatory   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000)
  
• Social: smoking material   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000)
  
• Social: stimulant   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Nicotiana tabacum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• widely cultivated

• origin South America

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Clarkson, J. J. et al. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships in Nicotiana (Solanaceae) inferred from multiple plastid DNA regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 33:75–90.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Goodspeed, T. H. 1954. The genus Nicotiana. Chron. Bot. 16:372.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lim, K. Y. et al. 2004. Genome evolution in allotetraploid Nicotiana. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 82:599–606. [shows evidence that the T-genome donor may have derived from a previous introgression event involving N. otophora; also all natural tobacco genotypes have intergenomic translocations prob. due to parental phylogenetic divergence].
• Lim, K. Y. et al. 2006. A genetic appraisal of a new synthetic Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae) and the Kostoff synthetic tobacco. Amer. J. Bot. 93:875–883.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:111.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 16:93.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Nicotiana tabacum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Nicotiana tabacum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Nicotiana tabacum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Nicotiana chinensis Fisch. ex Lehm.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Nicotiana tabacum var. macrophylla (Lehm.) Schrank
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)

Check other web resources for Nicotiana tabacum L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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