Nitrogen addition influences tomato resistance to the destructive invasive pest Tuta absoluta

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Hebei Natural Science Foundation (Grant nos C2024201083 and C2022201042), the Science and Technology Project of the Hebei Education Department (BJ2025041), the Youth Fund from Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (QNJJ202424), and the Excellent Youth Research Innovation Team of Hebei University (Grant no. QNTD202405).

Author contributions

Z.K., J.S., and C.L. conceived and designed the experiments. Z.S., Z.L., C.Q., R.P., A.L., and X.Y. performed the experiments and analyzed the data. Z.S., Z.L., C.Q., C.L., J.S., and Z.K. wrote and revised the manuscript.

Data availability

Transcriptome data has been uploaded into the SRA database in NCBI (BioProject ID: PRJNA1222811).

Conflict of interest statement:

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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