As part of an effort to fight several bacterial diseases that can lead to 10% losses of tomato crops, researchers from the Republic of China on Taiwan moved genes encoding the antibacterial cecropin B peptides from lepidoptera into tomatoes. The resulting transgenic tomatoes now show resistance to two key diseases, namely bacterial wilt and spot, according to Hueih-Min Chen of National Nano Device Laboratories in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and his collaborators. Details of the research appear in the February Applied and Environmental Microbiology (76:769–775).