image: Leafhopper of the genus Empoasca on a tobacco leaf: A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has now elucidated the chemical defense that tobacco plants use to ...

Given the sheer number of potential enemies, plants are resistant to most pests, even if they can cause damage to other plants. Researchers describe a newly discovered mechanism that protects a wild ...

Plants are at the bottom of the food chain and are continually threatened by pathogens and herbivorous insects. But the vast majority of attackers are unable to cause any damage due to a broadly based ...