A project to promote the biological control of the tomato leafminer
In 2006, the tomato leafminer, a plague that affects the tomato plant and causes large losses throughout the value chain, arrived in Spain. This mining lepidopteran mainly attacks the leaves of the plant to feed on the parenchyma, a tissue involved in a wide variety of physiological functions, although it can also penetrate the fruits and cause damage that would render the fruit
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