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Billion-Dollar Threat: Could a Tomato From the 90s Stop a Devastating Modern Plague?


Temperature shapes tomato resistance. New cultivars could help growers worldwide. Scientists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), working with university collaborators, are helping American tomato growers confront a serious plant disease. They discovered that a tomato line developed

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