A special pair of phytohormones controls excitability, slow closure, and external stomach formation in the Venus flytrap

Venus flytrap's leaves can catch an insect in a fraction of a second. Since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have struggled to understand the sensory biology and biomechanics of this plant, Dionaea muscipula. Here we show that insect-capture of Dionaea traps is modulated by the phytohormo...

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Main Authors: Escalante-Pérez, María, Krol, Elzbieta, Stange, Annette, Geiger, Dietmar, Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S., Hause, Bettina, Neher, Erwin, Hedrich, Rainer
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3174645/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21896747
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112535108
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