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Plants utilize drought stress hormone to block snacking spider mites - EurekAlert


<strong>Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programmes aimed at achieving better broadscale pest control.</strong>

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