ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology2013
Inside the trap: gland morphologies, digestive enzymes, and the evolution of plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales.
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- How the diversity in digestion in carnivorous plants may have evolved.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Nepenthes chitinase NkChit2b- 1 confers broad-spectrum resistance to chitin-containing pathogens and insects in plants.Advanced biotechnology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetical Position versus Pollination Syndromes: Floral Trichomes of Central American and MexicanInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Sessile Trichomes Play Major Roles in Prey Digestion and Absorption, While Stalked Trichomes Function in Prey Predation inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Organ-specific expression and epigenetic traits of genes encoding digestive enzymes in the lance-leaf sundew (Drosera adelae).Journal of experimental botany · 2021Article
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- Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) act as ecological filters by altering properties of their fluid microenvironments.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Microscopic Characteristic and Chemical Composition Analysis of Three Medicinal Plants and Surface Frosts.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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- Long-read sequencing uncovers the adaptive topography of a carnivorous plant genome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Making Plants Break a Sweat: the Structure, Function, and Evolution of Plant Salt Glands.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Review
- Comparative Study of Bacterial Communities in Nepenthes Pitchers and Their Correlation to Species and Fluid Acidity.Microbial ecology · 2016Article
- Venus flytrap carnivorous lifestyle builds on herbivore defense strategies.Genome research · 2016Article
- Genome-wide analysis of adaptive molecular evolution in the carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba.Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
- Nepenthesin protease activity indicates digestive fluid dynamics in carnivorous nepenthes plants.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
The digestion of prey by carnivorous plants is determined in part by suites of enzymes that are associated with morphologically and anatomically diverse trapping mechanisms. Chitinases represent a group of enzymes known to be integral to effective plant carnivory. In non-carnivorous plants, chitinases commonly act as pathogenesis-related proteins, which are either induced in response to insect herbivory and fungal elicitors, or constitutively expressed in tissues vulnerable to attack. In the Caryophyllales carnivorous plant lineage, multiple classes of chitinases are likely involved in both pathogenic response and digestion of prey items. We review what is currently known about trap morphologies, provide an examination of the diversity, roles, and evolution of chitinases, and examine how herbivore and pathogen defense mechanisms may have been coopted for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales.
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