Forget garlic. In real life, a tomato can defeat a vampire. And researchers have now figured out the first step to vegetable triumph. The vampires are slim, tangling vines that look like splats of ...

Let the plant wars begin. A parasitic vine that sucks the life out of feral weeds is being billed as a promising new agent for biocontrol. Cassytha pubescens, or devil’s twine, is the first native ...