Staff

Michelle Peiffer

Research Support Assistant

237 ASI
University Park, PA

Email mlk101@psu.edu
Phone 814-865-1463

Centers & Institutes

Center for Chemical Ecology

Department of Entomology

The study found that increased salt content in tomato plants reduces fruitworm caterpillar feeding and limits the number of eggs that moths lay on these plants. Credit: Sahil Pawar. All Rights Reserved.

April 15, 2025

Feeling salty? Increased salt stress reduces tomato pest activity

March 02, 2025

Select corn lines contain compounds that sicken, kill major crop pest

The flavonoids that provide insecticide-like protection to some corn lines against corn earworm larvae also provide pigments to the plants that show up in the silks, husks and kernels. Pictured here are the lines used in the research. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

February 19, 2025

Select corn lines contain compounds that sicken, kill major crop pest

August 23, 2022

Flavonoids from sorghum plants kill fall armyworm pest on corn; may protect crop

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