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Venus Flytrap HKT1-Type Channel Provides for Prey Sodium Uptake into Carnivorous Plant Without Conflicting with Electrical Excitability

The animal diet of the carnivorous Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, contains a sodium load that enters the capture organ via an HKT1-type sodium channel, expressed in special epithelia cells on the inner trap lobe surface. DmHKT1 expression and sodium uptake activity is induced upon prey contact. H...

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Autores principales: Böhm, J., Scherzer, S., Shabala, S., Krol, E., Neher, E., Mueller, T.D., Hedrich, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4791408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26455461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2015.09.017