Scientists found that a caterpillar called the tomato fruit worm not only chomps on tomatoes and their leaves, but also deposits enzyme-laden saliva on the plant, interfering with its ability to ...

Imagine that you're a beautiful tomato plant growing in a garden. Sunlight, earthworm casings to eat, rain to drink. It sounds peaceful until a barrage of hungry caterpillars come. What can you do ...

Scientists sprayed tomato plants with methyl jasmonate to kick off these responses, then unleashed caterpillars on them. Compared to an untreated plant, a high-dose plant had five times as much ...

Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. John Orrock Plants are often seen as taking a passive role in ...

A platoon of caterpillars, young and hungry, descend on a defenseless tomato plant to feast, but as they begin to eat something goes terribly wrong. The leaves no longer satisfy, and they turn on each ...

The team, comprising entomologists from the College of Agricultural Sciences, found that increased salt content in tomato plants reduces fruitworm larvae—or caterpillar—feeding and limits the ...

In the past, other studies have looked at how soil microbes like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi or caterpillars or the variety of tomato plant can influence VOCs. In the current study, the ...