#Strigolactones increase tolerance to weevils in tobacco plants
“#Strigolactones increase tolerance to weevils in tobacco plants” The larva of the weevil Trichobaris mucorea inside the stem of a Nicotiana attenuata plant Credit: Anna Schroll A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, has discovered that strigolactones, a class of novel plant hormones, mediate the fine-tuning of…