According to German technology university TU Dortmund, their researchers have managed to genetically modify a tobacco plant called Virginia Smoking Tobacco, so that its concentration of the highly ...

The battery separator maker is set to receive up $25 million from the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to bring major natural gas service to the project, according to the release. The ...

Microporous LLC, a manufacturer of battery separators, will invest $1.35 billion to establish a new manufacturing facility in ...

When he asked to take the plant’s seeds back with ... managed to procure seeds for Indian tobacco from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation in Virginia back in 2006. But the real prize ...

Virginia was being held back. Thanks to tobacco, it had the means to make money. What was needed, though, were laborers -- laborers to clear fields, to plant and harvest crops. During the 1620s ...

Two years later, the colonists began to experiment with various types of tobacco. The plant grew successfully in the Carribean. Now they found a variety that was well-suited to Virginia.