Basic β-1,3-Glucanase from Drosera binata Exhibits Antifungal Potential in Transgenic Tobacco Plants
Plants, 2021 The basic β-1,3-glucanase of the carnivorous plant Drosera binata was tested as a purified protein, as well as under the control of a double CaMV35S promoter in transgenic tobacco for its capability to inhibit the growth of Trichoderma viride ...
Miroslav Rajninec +5 more
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Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Murakami K +8 more
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Optimalisation of expression conditions for production of round-leaf sundew chitinase (Drosera rotundifolia L.) in three E. coli expression strains [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2016 Round-leaf sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.), family Droseraceae, genus Drosera, is one of a few plant species with a strong antifungal potential.
Miroslav Rajninec +2 more
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How the diversity in digestion in carnivorous plants may have evolved. [PDF]
New PhytolSummary Carnivorous plants secrete digestive enzymes for prey degradation. Although carnivorous plants have a polyphyletic origin and evolved several times independently, they surprisingly co‐opted similar digestive enzymes during convergent evolution.
Pavlovič A.
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Adhesive hydrogels have been utilized as tissue sealants, hemostatic agents, and wound dressings, with the aim of replacing conventional sutures.
Jae Hyuk Choi, Donghee Son, Mikyung Shin
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Catapulting tentacles in a sticky carnivorous plant.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Among trapping mechanisms in carnivorous plants, those termed 'active' have especially fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin's early works because trap movements are involved.
Simon Poppinga +5 more
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The power of ionic movements in plants. [PDF]
New PhytolSummary The movement of ion‐driven electrogenic events known as plant action potentials in the Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula has first been recognized in Darwin's time. Besides electrophysiological techniques making use of current‐ and voltage‐recording electrodes, today an ever‐growing spectrum of tools has become available, that report online ...
Hedrich R, Kreuzer I.
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Microhabitat preferences of six Drosera (Droseraceae) from Tibagi river basin, Paraná state, Brazil
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2004 We studied the microhabitats and the climatic requirements of six Drosera taxa, which occur in the subtropical grasslands of the Tibagi river basin.
Dennis Panayotis Saridakis +2 more
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Biology, ecology, use, conservation and cultivation of round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.): a review [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2016 Drosera rotundifolia is a perennial insectivorous herb which occupies open, wet, oligotrophic habitats such as acidic bogs and poor fens, and specifically grows in Sphagnum-dominated communities.
B. Baranyai, H. Joosten
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Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2010 Background The search for naturally occurring nanocomposites with diverse properties for tissue engineering has been a major interest for biomaterial research.
Zhang Mingjun +6 more
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