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CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Santa Cruz do Sul, 2005, A 15

Reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines in air-cured tobacco

LI Qinglin; KRAUSS M.; COLASSACO D.; BOKELMAN G.; GADANI F.; ROSSI L.

Philip Morris USA, Research Center, Richmond, VA, USA

Antioxidants, such as phenolics, tocopherols and carotenoids in tobacco leaves, are known to interfere with oxidation processes through chain-breaking reactions or through scavenging of free radicals. The induction or up-regulation of these and other...
CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Bucharest, 2003, AP 16

The tobacco genome initiative

OPPERMAN C.H.; LOMMEL S.A.; SOSINSKI B.R.; LAKEY N.; GADANI F.

North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Raleigh, NC; Orion Genomics, LLC, MO - Philip Morris USA, Richmond, VA, USA

Cultivated tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum , is member of the Solanaceae family, which also includes eggplant, pepper, petunia, potato and tomato. N. tabacum is an amphiploid species (2n=48) resulting from an interspecific cross between N. sylvestris...
CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Bucharest, 2003, APOST 01

Ethylene formation in tobacco leaf stimulated by sodium bicarbonate treatment

SHI Hongzhi; KRAUSS M.; GADANI F.

Philip Morris USA, Research Center, Richmond, VA, USA

Sodium bicarbonate is effective in accelerating leaf senescence and in stimulating nicotine demethylation in tobacco. It also showed potential as a color developing agent during curing of burley tobacco and in the early identification of nicotine to...