ReviewAnnals of botany2015
A novel insight into the cost-benefit model for the evolution of botanical carnivory.
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- Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence.Nature communications · 2026Article
- CAnDI: A New Tool to Investigate Conflict in Homologous Gene Trees and Explain Convergent Trait Evolution.Systematic biology · 2026Article
- Plastid Genome Evolution Across the Roridulaceae-Sarraceniaceae Clade (Ericales) in Relation to Carnivorous Strategies.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- ChemicaL Profiles and Foraging Efficiency in a Carnivorous Plant: Effects of Contrasting Precipitation Regimes.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- From Mud to Meat: Comparative Metabarcoding Reveals Two Different Evolutionary Paths to Carnivory in a Group of Meiofaunal Annelids.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- How the diversity in digestion in carnivorous plants may have evolved.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economics spectrum.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- The carnivorous rainbow plant Byblis filifolia Planch. secretes digestive enzymes in response to prey capture independently of jasmonates.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025Article
- Complex transcription regulation of acidic chitinase suggests fine-tuning of digestive processes in Drosera binata.Planta · 2025Article
- Is the co-option of jasmonate signalling for botanical carnivory a universal trait for all carnivorous plants?Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Distinctive plastome evolution in carnivorous angiosperms.BMC plant biology · 2023Article
- Water Cannot Activate Traps of the Carnivorous Sundew PlantPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Alternative oxidase (AOX) in the carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes: what is it good for?Annals of botany · 2022Article
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- Proof of anthocyanins in the carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes.FEBS open bio · 2021Article
- A discordance of seasonally covarying cues uncovers misregulated phenotypes in the heterophyllous pitcher plantProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds May Help Reduce Pollinator-Prey Overlap in the Carnivorous Plant Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Drosophyllaceae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2021Article
- Jasmonate-independent regulation of digestive enzyme activity in the carnivorous butterwort Pinguicula × Tina.Journal of experimental botany · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe cost-benefit model for the evolution of botanical carnivory provides a conceptual framework for interpreting a wide range of comparative and experimental studies on carnivorous plants. This model assumes that the modified leaves called traps represent a significant cost for the plant, and this cost is outweighed by the benefits from increased nutrient uptake from prey, in terms of enhancing the rate of photosynthesis per unit leaf mass or area (AN) in the microsites inhabited by carnivorous plants. SCOPE: This review summarizes results from the classical interpretation of the cost-benefit model for evolution of botanical carnivory and highlights the costs and benefits of active trapping mechanisms, including water pumping, electrical signalling and accumulation of jasmonates. Novel alternative sequestration strategies (utilization of leaf litter and faeces) in carnivorous plants are also discussed in the context of the cost-benefit model.
conclusionsTraps of carnivorous plants have lower AN than leaves, and the leaves have higher AN after feeding. Prey digestion, water pumping and electrical signalling represent a significant carbon cost (as an increased rate of respiration, RD) for carnivorous plants. On the other hand, jasmonate accumulation during the digestive period and reprogramming of gene expression from growth and photosynthesis to prey digestion optimizes enzyme production in comparison with constitutive secretion. This inducibility may have evolved as a cost-saving strategy beneficial for carnivorous plants. The similarities between plant defence mechanisms and botanical carnivory are highlighted.
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