Silencing the alarm
E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers have discovered that tomato fruitworm caterpillars silence their food plants' cries for help as they devour their leaves. view more Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Like a scene from a horror movie, tomato fruitworm caterpillars silence their food plants' cries for help as they devour their leaves. That is the finding of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, who said the results may yield insights into the abilities of crop plants -- such as tomato and soybean -- to withstand additional stressors, like climate change. "We have dis...
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