Taxon: Nicotiana tabacum L.

Common names:

• tobacco   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• tabac   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:93.) – French
  
• tabac commun   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Tabak   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tabaco   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  

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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; smoking material; stimulant   (fide Food Feed Crops US; Pl Res SEAs 16:94. 2000)
  

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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:

• 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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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Nicotiana tabacum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Nicotiana tabacum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

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

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
• 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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