Expression and Refolding of the Plant Chitinase From Drosera capensis for Applications as a Sustainable and Integrated Pest Management [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Recently, the study of chitinases has become an important target of numerous research projects due to their potential for applications, such as biocontrol pest agents.
Niklas E Siedhoff +2 more
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The Droserasin 1 PSI: A Membrane-Interacting Antimicrobial Peptide from the Carnivorous Plant Drosera capensis [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2020 The Droserasins, aspartic proteases from the carnivorous plant Drosera capensis, contain a 100-residue plant-specific insert (PSI) that is post-translationally cleaved and independently acts as an antimicrobial peptide.
Marc A. Sprague-Piercy +12 more
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Metabolomic analysis reveals reliance on secondary plant metabolites to facilitate carnivory in the Cape sundew,Drosera capensis [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2021 AbstractBackground and AimsSecondary metabolites are integral to multiple key plant processes (growth regulation, pollinator attraction and interactions with conspecifics, competitors and symbionts) yet their role in plant adaptation remains an underexplored area of research.
Christopher R Hatcher +2 more
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Water Cannot Activate Traps of the Carnivorous Sundew Plant Drosera capensis: On the Trail of Darwin’s 150-Years-Old Mystery [PDF]
Plants, 2023 In his famous book Insectivorous plants, Charles Darwin observed that the bending response of tentacles in the carnivorous sundew plant Drosera rotundifolia was not triggered by a drop of water, but rather the application of many dissolved chemicals or ...
Andrej Pavlovič +2 more
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Gland cell responses to feeding in Drosera capensis, a carnivorous plant [PDF]
Protoplasma, 2021 AbstractGlands of Drosera absorb and transport nutrients from captured prey, but the mechanism and dynamics remain unclear. In this study, we offered animal proteins in the form of fluorescent albumin (FITC-BSA) and observed the reactions of the glands by live cell imaging and fluorescence microscopy.
Irène Lichtscheidl +2 more
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The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery [PDF]
Applications in Plant SciencesPremise With the advent of inexpensive nucleic acid sequencing and automated annotation at the level of basic functionality, the central problem of enzyme discovery is no longer finding active sequences, it is determining which ones are suitable for ...
Gemma R. Takahashi +3 more
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Feeding on prey increases photosynthetic efficiency in the carnivorous sundew Drosera capensis [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2014 BACKROUND AND AIMS: It has been suggested that the rate of net photosynthesis (AN) of carnivorous plants increases in response to prey capture and nutrient uptake; however, data confirming the benefit from carnivory in terms of increased AN are scarce and unclear.
Andrej Pavlovic +2 more
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Quantification of Protein Uptake by Endocytosis in Carnivorous Nepenthales [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Carnivorous plants adsorb prey-derived nutrients partly by endocytosis. This study quantifies endocytosis in Drosophyllum lusitanicum, Drosera capensis, Drosera roseana, Dionaea muscipula and Nepenthes × ventrata.
Caroline Ivesic +7 more
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Occurrence of myo-inositol and alkyl-substituted polysaccharide in the prey-trapping mucilage of Drosera capensis [PDF]
Die Naturwissenschaften, 2017 The chemical composition of the exudate mucilage droplets of the carnivorous plant Drosera capensis was investigated using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The mucilage was found to contain beside a very large molecular weight polysaccharide a significant amount of myo-inositol. It appears that myo-inositol escaped detection due to the commonly
Tetsuo Kokubun
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Novel proteases from the genome of the carnivorous plant Drosera capensis: Structural prediction and comparative analysis [PDF]
Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 2016 ABSTRACTIn his 1875 monograph on insectivorous plants, Darwin described the feeding reactions of Drosera flypaper traps and predicted that their secretions contained a “ferment” similar to mammalian pepsin, an aspartic protease. Here we report a high‐quality draft genome sequence for the cape sundew, Drosera capensis, the first genome of a carnivorous ...
Carter T Butts, Rachel W Martin
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