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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

www.york.ac.uk

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Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

www.york.ac.uk

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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Scientists have uncovered how tobacco plants naturally make nicotine, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two centuries.
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    Same for tomato plants?

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      No sorry, that would take another 200 years.

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      Tmatoes have nicotine?

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        A very small amount, yes. You couldn’t eat enough to have any effect it’s so small, but it’s there.

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          Hmm, our body also generates DMT naturally and we don’t know why. Life’s mysteries.

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      Tomacco plants?

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        It’s an older one so in case someone doesn’t know, the premise of that Simpsons episode is that because tomatoes have a small amount of nicotine being a related plant (actual fact) to tobacco they could be combined making addictive tomatoes.

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          I knew they had some in it, but what’s an older one? Thanks for your explanation though.

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            The episode is an older one. Before they were HD I think.

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              Oh. Fair enough. It was definitely an older episode.

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