Genes for carnivory arose from a duplication of the genome turning plants into hunters.
Tag - carnivory
Liam Elliott
It’s the taste of flesh* that makes a Sundew salivate**
If you want to get a Sundew to feed on its prey, it has to do more than just wriggle.
Alun Salt![Image: Hu et al., 2014. Annals of Botany 113: 181–189. [http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/1.cover-expansion]](https://i0.wp.com/botany.one/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/05-Feb-SIZED-align-left.jpg?resize=585%2C300&ssl=1)
Your botanical ‘one-stop shop’
There are plant biology journals that seem to concentrate on a single taxon (you know the ones I mean!) – e.g. The Plant Journal and The Plant Cell. There are others devoted to the molecular biology of plants, such as...
Nigel Chaffey
Tentacular spectacular
All plants are fascinating, but some are more fascinating than others (to misquote George Orwell, English novelist and journalist). And what is more fascinating than a new insight into the world of the carnivorous...
Waste not, want not…
A little while ago we looked at auxotrophic algae getting a helping hand from bacteria; now we’ll take a look at ‘proper plants’ that get a little help from animals (in a sort of mixotrophy). But it’s not exactly...
