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Article: Biopharmaceutical Firm Patents Kentucky Tobacco Hybrid for Drug Manufacture.
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- Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Byline: Keith Lawrence
Mar. 29--Daviess County's tobacco patches are going high-tech this spring.
In fact, some of those green fields of tobacco you drive past this summer won't really be tobacco.
Some of them will be fields of Nicotiana excelsiana, a "fundamentally new plant species" patented this week by Large Scale Biology Corp. of Vacaville, Calif. The company's bioprocessing division is in Owensboro's MidAmerica Airpark.
"The new hybrid was grown successfully in Kentucky last summer," Barry Holtz, the company's senior vice president for biopharmaceuticals, said Thursday. "And that was a major step in the validation process for ...
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