Background The cost–benefit model for the evolution of botanical carnivory provides a
conceptual framework for interpreting a wide range of comparative and experimental studies …

Background Carnivorous plants are an ideal model system for evaluating the role of
secondary metabolites in plant ecology and evolution. Carnivory is a striking example of …

Medal (note the leaf scroll at the top) received by W. Adams at the Missouri State Science
Fair. The backdrop of leaves includes those from (beginning in the upper left, moving …

Carnivorous Lentibulariaceae exhibit the most sophisticated implementation of the
carnivorous syndrome in plants. Their unusual lifestyle coincides with distinct genomic …

Nepenthes is the largest genus of pitcher plants, with its centre of diversity in SE Asia. The
plants grow in substrates that are deficient in N and offset this deficiency by trapping animal …

Background Carnivorous plants are an ecological group of approx. 810 vascular species
which capture and digest animal prey, absorb prey-derived nutrients and utilize them to …

 Abstract Nepenthespudica, a new species from North Kalimantan, Indonesia, is described
and illustrated. The species belongs to the N. hirsuta group (sensu Cheek and Jebb 1999) …

Plants require the uptake of nutrients (in most cases via roots) and their incorporation into
plant organs for growth. In non-woody species, 83% of fresh weight is water, 7% is carbon …

The trap of the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) catches prey by very
rapid closure of its modified leaves. After the rapid closure secures the prey, repeated …

Modulation of foliar photosynthesis rate during short-term changes in abiotic environment as
well as longer-term acclimation of photosynthetic capacity in response to abiotic factors or …