Nutritional benefit from leaf litter utilization in the pitcher plant Nepenthes ampullaria

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1865-1873

  Pavlovič, Andrej ^a   Slováková, Ľudmila ^a   Šantrůček, Jiří ^b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carnivorous plants; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Nitrogen; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PIGMENT;

CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CHLOROPHYLL; DICOTYLEDON; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEAF LITTER; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL SURFACE;

ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; QUANTUM THEORY; SARRACENIACEAE;

CARBON; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTUM THEORY; SARRACENIACEAE;

NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 80053637839     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02382.x     Document Type: Article

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