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Domestic tomatoes could re-learn a thing or two from their wild cousins—like how to fight off bugs.

Long-term cultivation has led to tomato crops losing beneficial traits common to wild tomatoes. Anthony Schilmiller of Michigan State University has identified a gene that is involved in one of these beneficial traits: “hairs” that secrete a sugar to battle insects. 

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