Beetle RNA makes crops a noxious meal
Insects shun potato plants laced with the pests’ own genetic material
![potato bug](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kb_potatobug_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
FOUL FEAST Plants with potato beetle genes make a kind of RNA that attacks the bugs when they start munching.
MPI for Chemical Ecology, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology