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Taxon: Nicotiana tabacum L.

Genus: Nicotiana section: Nicotiana
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Nicotianoideae.
Nomen number: 25309
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:180. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: valid publication verified from original literature
Name verified on: 23-Apr-2009 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Apr-2009
Species priority site is: Nicotiana Collection (TOB).
Accessions: 1881 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Distributional range:

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated, origin South America

References:

  • Clarkson, J. J. et al. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships in Nicotiana (Solanaceae) inferred from multiple plastid DNA regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 33:75–90. [the phylogenetic analysis of all taxa shows that this taxon clusters sister to N. × digluta in a clade sister to the diploid N. sylvestris, the closest relative of their ancestor].
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Goodspeed, T. H. 1954. The genus Nicotiana. Chron. Bot. 16:372.
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • 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. [crossing N. sylvestris as maternal donor & N. tomentosiformis as paternal one created new synthetic tobacco with no intergenomic translocation and therfore sterile or highly reduced fertility].
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
  • Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 16:93.
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Check other databases for Nicotiana tabacum L.:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?25309 (09 February 2010)

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