Action potentials evoked by light in traps of Dionaea muscipula ellis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-372

  Trebacz, Kazimierz ^a   Sievers, Andreas ^b  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action potential; Dionaea muscipula; Droseraceae; Venus flytrap

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MESOPHYLL; PLANT CELL;

DIONAEA; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; DROSERACEAE;

EID: 0031921387     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029379     Document Type: Article

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