Mineral nutrient uptake from prey and glandular phosphatase activity as a dual test of carnivory in semi-desert plants with glandular leaves suspected of carnivory

Annals of Botany

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 649-654

  Płachno, Bartosz Jan ^a   Adamec, Lubomír ^b   Huet, Hervé ^c,d  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c Kibutz Yad Mordechai   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cleome droserifolia; Drosophyllum lusitanicum; Fruit flies; Hyoscyamus desertorum; Ibicella lutea; N, P, K, Mg uptake from prey; Phosphatase; Phosphomonoesters; Proboscidea parviflora; Roridula gorgonias

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE;

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CARNIVORY; DESERT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; MINERAL; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PREY CAPTURE; SECRETION; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYMOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DESERT CLIMATE; DROSOPHILA; MINERALS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS;

CLEOME; CLEOME DROSERIFOLIA; DROSOPHYLLUM; DROSOPHYLLUM LUSITANICUM; HEXAPODA; HYOSCYAMUS; HYOSCYAMUS DESERTORUM; IBICELLA; IBICELLA LUTEA; PROBOSCIDEA (PLANT); PROBOSCIDEA PARVIFLORA; RORIDULA; RORIDULA GORGONIAS;

EID: 69249215254     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp155     Document Type: Article

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