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The Metagenome of Utricularia gibba's Traps: Into the Microbial Input to a Carnivorous Plant. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2016
Alcaraz LD   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Smelling Wellness: Associations Between Botanic Garden Scentscapes and Human Health Gains. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health
Tucker MR   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Roots of Carnivorous Plants

Plant and Soil, 2005
Carnivorous plants may benefit from animal-derived nutrients to supplement minerals from the soil. Therefore, the role and importance of their roots is a matter of debate. Aquatic carnivorous species lack roots completely, and many hygrophytic and epiphytic carnivorous species only have a weakly developed root system.
Adlassnig, W   +3 more
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Carnivorous Plants

2018
Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey;
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Expanding the menu for carnivorous plants: Uptake of potassium, iron and manganese by carnivorous pitcher plants

Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2009
Carnivorous plants use animals as fertiliser substitutes which allow them to survive on nutrient deficient soils. Most research concentrated on the uptake of the prey's nitrogen and phosphorus; only little is known on the utilisation of other elements.
Adlassnig, Wolfram   +6 more
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