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This project focuses on enhancing insect resistance in cultivated tomatoes by reintroducing natural defense mechanisms from wild tomato species. The research aims to identify and utilize specific metabolic pathways to improve pest resistance in agricultural practices.
Insects are gaining resistance to commercially available pesticides and effective insecticides (e.g. neonicotinoids) are currently being banned.
Consequently, there is a real threat that the EU vegetable production will be affected.
Wild tomato species have the ability to defend themselves by producing natural defence compounds that have a toxic or repellent effect on insects.
These compounds are produced and stored in glandular hairs (trichomes) on the plant stem and leaf surface.
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UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
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