Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person inspecting aphids on leaves of tomato plant - larisa Stefanjuk/Shutterstock Tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) are ...

One of the special joys of home vegetable gardening is harvesting vine-ripened tomatoes. Many gardeners have planted their ...

Gardening doesn’t have to feel like a battle against every creepy crawly that crosses your backyard. Imagine walking into a ...

The scent of tomato leaves wafting through the air reminds me there is nothing quite like the taste of a freshly picked, vine-ripened tomato, a highlight of my summer. I was so disappointed last year ...

For effective control of the pests, it’s important to use integrated pest management (IPM), which includes preventive measures, monitoring, biological and chemical control. Tomato crops are very ...

A specific concentration of REO (1 × 10^5 dilution), identified as optimal, echoes findings similar to those for valine menthyl ester, another plant defense potentiator, suggesting that higher doses ...

Good guy or bad guy? Believe it or not, many insects in the landscape are beneficial to our gardens. When spotting insects in ...

Icipe researchers release wasps to help fight Tuta Absoluta at a farm in Gatitika village, Kirinyaga. [Lydia Nyawira] Kenyan researchers have introduced a wasp native to South America as part of a ...

International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), in collaboration with the county government of Kirinyaga County, has started a training partnership that will ensure tomato farmers adopt ...

Vestaron Corporation is a leading agricultural biotechnology company specialising in the development of peptide-based crop protection products. The tomato leafminer has been known to cause yield ...

For years, tomato farmers across northern Nigeria have lived under the shadow of a tiny but deadly pest. Known scientifically as Tuta absoluta, the moth larva has ravaged tomato fields, leaving ...