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

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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 three decades ago shows promising resistance to the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), an emerging [...]