CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, 2013, Seville, ST 25
From seed to smoke: N-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) level in smoke is significantly reduced in experimental Burley isolines bred to have stable low nornicotine content
(1) Altria Client Services Inc., Research, Development & Engineering, Richmond, VA, U.S.A; (2) North Carolina State University, Department of Crop Science, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
N-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) is one of several tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) identified in cured tobacco leaf and smoke. Previous work has demonstrated that by stabilizing a low level of the precursor nornicotine, the level of NNN in cured leaf...