Gravity Affects the Closure of the Traps in Dionaea muscipula

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pandolfi, Camilla ^a   Masi, Elisa ^a   Voigt, Boris ^b   Mugnai, Sergio ^a   Volkmann, Dieter ^b   Mancuso, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FLIGHT; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; DROSERACEAE; GRAVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIONAEA; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; HEXAPODA;

DROSERACEAE; GRAVITATION; KINETICS;

EID: 84922753910     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/964203     Document Type: Article

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