Sentences with phrase «tobacco budworm»

The tobacco budworm eats the fruits and buds of many important crops, including tobacco, cotton, corn, and tomatoes.

In a second article appearing in the same journal, a team of geneticists studying the tobacco budworm moth discovered a recessive gene (BtR - 4) that provides resistance to Bt toxin.

Tobacco plants released the same eight compounds when wounded by either pest, but five of these chemicals were consistently more concentrated around plants hit by the tobacco budworms.

Now researchers say that some can even call for help: When chewed by tobacco budworms, many crops will send out a chemical distress signal to attract wasps that prey on the budworms.