Researchers discover corn plants call in hungry nematodes when resistant rootworms attack

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 10:10 in Biology & Nature

Someday – in some scientifically savvy encyclopedia perhaps – the word "resilience" may include a photograph of the Western Corn Rootworm. This crafty, intrepid rootworm has found a way to circumvent just about every defense a corn plant and its advocates have thrown at it.

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