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    This document summarizes the external morphology and economic importance of Nicotiana tabacum, commonly known as tobacco. It describes the taxonomic classification of tobacco as an annual herb belonging to the family Solanaceae. The key identifying characteristics include a branched taproot system, erect cylindrical stems, ovate leaves, terminal panicles of flowers, and capsular fruits. While tobacco is economically important for the worldwide tobacco industry, its use also contributes significantly to global health issues and costs due to associated death and disease.

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    This document summarizes the external morphology and economic importance of Nicotiana tabacum, commonly known as tobacco. It describes the taxonomic classification of tobacco as an annual herb belonging to the family Solanaceae. The key identifying characteristics include a branched taproot system, erect cylindrical stems, ovate leaves, terminal panicles of flowers, and capsular fruits. While tobacco is economically important for the worldwide tobacco industry, its use also contributes significantly to global health issues and costs due to associated death and disease.

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    This document summarizes the external morphology and economic importance of Nicotiana tabacum, commonly known as tobacco. It describes the taxonomic classification of tobacco as an annual herb belonging to the family Solanaceae. The key identifying characteristics include a branched taproot system, erect cylindrical stems, ovate leaves, terminal panicles of flowers, and capsular fruits. While tobacco is economically important for the worldwide tobacco industry, its use also contributes significantly to global health issues and costs due to associated death and disease.

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    Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

    Agricultural University

    Assignment 1
    Title: External Morphology of the plant Nicotiana tabacum under
    Solanaceae family and its economic importance
    Course Title: Plant Taxonomy and Economic Botany

    Course Code: CBT 110

    Term: Summer 2020

    Submitted To:
    Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Baset Mia
    Associate Prof. Dr. Haider Iqbal Khan
    Assistant Prof. S.M. Zubair Al-Meraj
    Department of Crop Botany
    Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University
    Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    Date of Submission: 30 November. 2020

    Submitted By:
    Saad Anwar Khan
    2005-5652
    Faculty of Agriculture
    Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University

    CBT 110
    Tobacco
    Scientific Name: Nicotiana tabacum
    Bangla Name : Tamak

    Taxonomic Position According to Cronquist (1988)


    Kingdom: Plantae
    Division : Magnoliophyta
    Class : Magnoliopsida
    Subclass : Asterdae
    Order : Solanales
    Family : Solanaceae
    Genus : Nicotiana
    Species : N. tabacum

    Identifying characteristics
    Habit of the plant
    Annual herb
    Root System
    A branched tap root system
    Stem
    Stem is aerial, erect, cylindrical and dichotomously branched.
    Leaves
    Leaves are simple, ovate, entire, pubescent. Phyllotaxy is alternate and petiolate. Venation is
    unicostate reticulate type.
    Inflorescence: Terminal panicle
    Flower
    Flower is bracteates, complete, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, pentamerous, and hypogynous.

    Calyx
    In this flower five sepals are present. They are tubular, slightly unequal and aestivation is
    valvate. Persistent Calyx is found here.
    Corolla
    Corolla is tubular, campanulate. Petals are five.
    Androecium
    Stamens are five in number and epipetalous. Four equal and another is short.
    Gynoecium
    The gynoecium is bilobed and ovary is superior. Placentation found in Axile type. Style is
    simple.

    Fruit and Seed


    Capsule, and seed is endospermic.

    Floral Formula

    Floral Diagram
    Economic Importance of Tobacco
    The main economically important part of tobacco plant is tobacco leaves. Tobacco
    industry is a big industry and it remains all over the world and they directly depends on tobacco
    plants. Tobacco leaves are mainly used for smoking, snuffing or chewing. Though tobacco
    leaves have an industrial importance, but use of tobacco is one of the leading preventable
    causes of death, killing more than 7 million people every year. It also burdens the global
    economy with an estimated US$ 1.4 trillion in healthcare costs and lost productivity each
    year. In our country, the scenario is almost same. So we should consider the health issue
    when we consider it as an economically important crop.

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