Silencing the alarm

(Penn State) 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.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 17, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news