Carnivorous plants
Flower nectar trichome structure of carnivorous plants from the genus butterworts Pinguicula L. (Lentibulariaceae)
... Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) is a genus comprising around 96 species of herbaceous, carnivorous plants, which are extremely diverse in flower size, colour and spur length and structure as well as ...
15
SOUTH WEST CARNIVOROUS PLANTS and the LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
... One of the most spectacular pitfall traps with the appearance of a striking cobra Pitchers up to 90cm tall. A vigorous plant that will soon colonise large containers with its quick growing rhizome, new plants ...
17
From ‘little flowers of the motherland’ into ‘carnivorous plants’: the changing face of youth crime in contemporary China
... Deng, (2012), writing in the China Daily, reports that ‘the city’s triad menace related to youth gangs is abating, thanks in large part to the efforts of the police to crack down on the[r] ...
33
Studies on the molecular regulation of nutrient supplementation in carnivorous Nepenthes
... some plants developed a carnivorous lifestyle. Within carnivorous plants, a variety of different trapping organs with distinct morphology have been developed in different orders, families, ...
95
Title: Cytochemical and ultrastructural aspects of aquatic carnivorous plant turions
... aquatic plants in response to unfavourable ecological conditions (Sculthorpe 1967 ; Bartley and Spence 1987 ...aquatic carnivorous plants of the genera Aldrovanda and Utricularia usually overwinter ...
7
Contribution of pitcher fragrance and fluid viscosity to high prey diversity in a Nepenthes carnivorous plant from Borneo
... these carnivorous plants are therefore more than simple pitfall traps and the different Nepenthes species seem to have developed a broad spectrum of trapping devices which would be worthwhile to studying ...
16
Floral micromorphology of the Australian carnivorous bladderwort Utricularia dunlopii, a putative pseudocopulatory species
... droplets, with starch grains occurring in both epidermal and parenchyma cells. Similar results were also obtained for the osmophores of other orchid genera and species, s u c h a s B u l b o p h y l l u m ( Te i x e i r ...
12
Flower palate ultrastructure of the carnivorous plant Genlisea hispidula Stapf with remarks on the structure and function of the palate in the subgenus Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae)
... Acknowledgements We dedicate our paper to Prof. Dr. Stefan Porembski (University of Rostock), who has been involved in studying Lentibulariaceae for many years. The stay of BJP in Brazil was financed by Universidade ...
9
The miniature genome of a carnivorous plant Genlisea aurea contains a low number of genes and short non-coding sequences
... from carnivorous plants (during revision of this manuscript the article reporting the genome of another carnivorous plant, Utricularia gibba, was published [43]), and data on more such genomes and ...
11
Coprophagous features in carnivorous Nepenthes plants: A task for ureases
... seven carnivorous plants included in this study, but was changed in the two legume species studied and in Arabidopsis ...convergent carnivorous plant-specific amino acid substitutions (Figs 2b ; S1 ...
9
A Novel Type of Nutritional Ant-Plant Interaction: Ant Partners of Carnivorous Pitcher Plants Prevent Nutrient Export by Dipteran Pitcher Infauna
... flowering plants are the two most diverse lineages of eukaryotes today, and their manifold interactions affect virtually all terrestrial ...and plants are particularly widespread because of the ants’ ...
11
Cell death and renewal during prey capture and digestion in the carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma hypogea (Porifera: Poecilosclerida)
... The feeding mechanism of carnivorous sponges implies a significant reorganization of the tissues involving alternate cycles of extension/retraction of prey-capturing filaments. In this paper we asked to what ...
7
POISONOUS PLANTS
... Description: Manchineel is a tree reaching up to 15 meters high with alternate, shiny green leaves and spikes of small greenish flowers.. Its fruits are green or greenish- yellow when ri[r] ...
28
Conserving New Zealand’s endemic carnivorous land snail Powelliphanta patrickensis through restoration of a functioning ecosystem
... As of 2014, New Zealand’s largest active opencast mine, covering approximately 2500 hectares, and located on the West Coast of the South Island has been granted an extension that will further impact the diverse range of ...
107
Characterization of Catalase form Carnivorous Fish Channa Striata Exposed to Binary Insecticides Mixture (Deltamethrin + Endosulfan)
... T he environment is plagued with different kinds of pollutants. Pesticides are one of such pollut- ants which play an important role in controlling dif- ferent types of pests that cause damage to the crop plants ...
7
Transmission of a fatal clonal tumor by biting occurs due to depleted MHC diversity in a threatened carnivorous marsupial
... Tasmania have functionally identical MHC haplotypes. How- ever, it should be noted that two other marsupials have docu- mented weak mixed lymphocyte responses; the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) (18) ...
6
Heat shock and plant leachates regulate seed germination of the endangered carnivorous plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum
... (Paniw et al., 2017a, b). Fire-related heat shock is still needed to stimulate seed germination and ensure a successful re- cruitment into a favourable post-fire habitat, which is key for the long-term population ...
7
The Nonvascular Plants & Seedless Vascular Plants
... nonvascular plants, such as mosses and liverworts, are one of the simplest groups of the true ...terrestrial plants, these species exhibit close evolutionary ties to the green ...these plants are ...
12
Diet Composition and Digestive Enzymes Activity in Carnivorous Fishes Inhabiting Mudflats of Indian Sundarban Estuaries
... It had earlier been reported (López-Vásquez et al., 2009) that carbohydrases and proteolytic activities were higher in the detritivores compared to the omnivorous and carnivorous fishes.This view is supportive of ...
11
Vascular Plants
... “apparently native” (Akeroyd & Clarke 1993); subsequent records from the site are in Akeroyd et al. (1996; 2011). A specimen held at Kew herbarium and collected from Horse Island in 1950 (Wilson 2007; Noeleen Smyth ...
141