Firing and resetting characteristics of carnivorous utricularia reflexa traps: Physiological or only physical regulation of trap triggering?

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 281-290

  Adamec, Lubomír ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aquatic carnivorous plant; Ether; Lentibulariaceae; Low temperature; Mechanical stimulation; NaN3; Trap firing and resetting; Utricularia reflexa; Water flow

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LENTIBULARIACEAE; UTRICULARIA;

EID: 84872182191     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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