Digestive Secretion of Dionaea muscipula (Venus's Flytrap) | Zendy

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Digestive Secretion of Dionaea muscipula (Venus's Flytrap)

Author(s) -

James Scala,

K. Iott,

D. W. Schwab,

F.E. Semersky

Publication year - 1969

Publication title -

plant physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554

H-Index - 312

eISSN - 1532-2548

pISSN - 0032-0889

DOI - 10.1104/pp.44.3.367

Subject(s) - secretion , amylase , enzyme , biochemistry , acid phosphatase , chemistry , function (biology) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology

The digestive fluid of Dionaea muscipula has been studied with respect to its protein content as a function of time after entrapment of protein material and some enzymes of the secretion. Maximum secretion of enzyme occurs within the first 3 days of the digestive cycle and protein reaches its maximum at 4 days. Phosphatase, proteinase, nuclease and amylase have been observed in the secretion. The enzymes have acid pH optima and the proteinase has a molecular weight of about 40,000.

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