Adaptive radiation with regard to nutrient sequestration strategies in the carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-297

  Pavlovič, Andrej ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Carnivorous plant; Functional morphology; Nepenthes; Pitcher plant

Indexed keywords

NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA; SARRACENIACEAE;

NITROGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SARRACENIACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SARRACENIACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85046982547     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.18842     Document Type: Article

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