Biological Potential of Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthales [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 Since Charles Darwin and his book carnivorous plants have aroused interest and heated debate. In addition, there is growing interest in this group of plants as a source of secondary metabolites and in the application of their biological activity. The aim
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Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 Carnivorous plants are able to attract small animals or protozoa and retain them in their specialized traps. Later, the captured organisms are killed and digested.
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Discovery of digestive enzymes in carnivorous plants with focus on proteases [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Carnivorous plants have been fascinating researchers with their unique characters and bioinspired applications. These include medicinal trait of some carnivorous plants with potentials for pharmaceutical industry.
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Volatile organic compounds influence prey composition in Sarracenia carnivorous plants [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Sarracenia pitcher plants display interspecific differences in prey, so far only explained by pitcher morphology. We hypothesized that pitcher odours play a role in prey composition.
Corentin Dupont +6 more
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Carnivorous Nepenthes x ventrata plants use a naphthoquinone as phytoanticipin against herbivory.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Carnivorous plants feed on animal prey, mainly insects, to get additional nutrients. This carnivorous syndrome is widely investigated and reported. In contrast, reports on herbivores feeding on carnivorous plants and related defenses of the plants under ...
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Assessing Carnivorous Plants for the Production of Recombinant Proteins [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 The recovery of recombinant proteins from plant tissues is an expensive and time-consuming process involving plant harvesting, tissue extraction, and subsequent protein purification.
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Carnivorous plants can decompose the polyesters poly(ethylene terephthalate) and poly(butylene adipate terephthalate) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPlants from the Nepenthes genus, which enumerates approximately 120 species, possess specialized pitchers enabling them to capture and digest various preys, mainly arthropods, from which the plants derive nutrients.
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Common Features Between the Proteomes of Floral and Extrafloral Nectar From the Castor Plant (Ricinus Communis) and the Proteomes of Exudates From Carnivorous Plants [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Label-free quantitative proteome analysis of extrafloral (EFN) and floral nectar (FN) from castor (Ricinus communis) plants resulted in the identification of 72 and 37 proteins, respectively.
Fábio C. S. Nogueira +5 more
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A viscoelastic deadly fluid in carnivorous pitcher plants.
PLoS ONE, 2007 BackgroundThe carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes, widely distributed in the Asian tropics, rely mostly on nutrients derived from arthropods trapped in their pitcher-shaped leaves and digested by their enzymatic fluid.
Laurence Gaume, Yoel Forterre
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How the diversity in digestion in carnivorous plants may have evolved [PDF]
New PhytologistAndrej Pavlovic
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