Carnivorous Syndrome in Asian Pitcher Plants of the Genus Nepenthes | Zendy

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Carnivorous Syndrome in Asian Pitcher Plants of the Genus Nepenthes

Author(s) -

Andrej Pavlovič,

E. Masarovičová,

J. Hudák

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcm145

Subject(s) - biology , carnivorous plant , photosynthesis , botany , lamina , chlorophyll , chlorophyll a , ecology , predation

Pitcher plants Nepenthes alata and N. mirabilis are carnivorous species with leaves composed of a photosynthetic part (lamina) and a pitcher trap. This characteristic permitted direct physiological and anatomical comparison between these two distinct parts of the leaves to determine those features involved in the 'carnivorous syndrome', which include low net photosynthetic assimilation rate (A(N)) and low photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE).

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