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Nepenthesin Protease Activity Indicates Digestive Fluid Dynamics in Carnivorous Nepenthes Plants

Carnivorous plants use different morphological features to attract, trap and digest prey, mainly insects. Plants from the genus Nepenthes possess specialized leaves called pitchers that function as pitfall-traps. These pitchers are filled with a digestive fluid that is generated by the plants themse...

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Autores principales: Buch, Franziska, Kaman, Wendy E., Bikker, Floris J., Yilamujiang, Ayufu, Mithöfer, Axel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118853

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