Plants come with pretty good security alert systems against pests and maladies. But entomologist Fiona Goggin wants to give them an upgrade to mount faster, more robust defenses against diseases and nematodes that attack them through the soil. Goggin is a professor of entomology in the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's research arm, and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. She has spent years studying the interactions of plants and insects with an eye toward developing safe biological pest control. Th...