Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, has a long, colorful history. This perennial herb has long been used (and misused) for its medicinal, toxic, and hallucinogenic properties. All parts of ...

Tomatoes are part of the nightshade family, a group of plants known for producing natural toxins. Some of their relatives, ...

Their findings, as their Science Advances study explains, points to a “complex epigenetic and genetic network” of ...

Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

A multi-institutional team of bioengineers has identified the genetic mechanism that converts bitter toxins to palatable ...

As with fathen and redroot, it can grow tall and leafy, creating lots of competition with crop plants for light. Black nightshade is often confused with deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna), which ...

Decades before The Flash was running around, Central City had another protector, The Nightshade. After defeating his greatest enemy, the technological mastermind, The Ghost, he went into retirement.

The Poison Garden at Alnwick Garden is home to more than 100 potentially lethal plants, including deadly nightshade, wolf’s bane, henbane, cannabis and khat. This outreach event gave people a chance ...