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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
In 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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