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Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate

  • Written by Gregg Howe, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climateIn the heat, tomato plants can't fight off the hungry tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. From www.shutterstock.com

For millennia, insects and the plants they feed on have been engaged in a co-evolutionary battle: to eat or not be eaten. Until recently, the two antagonistic sides have maintained a stalemate of sorts. With climate change, however,...

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