Mechano-Stimulation Triggers Turgor Changes Associated with Trap Closure in the Darwin Plant Dionaea muscipula

作     者：María Escalante-Pérez Sonke Scherzer Khaled A.S. Al-Rasheid Christoph Dottinger Erwin Neher Rainer Hedrich 

作者机构：Department for Membrane BiophysicsMax-Planck-Institute for Biophysical ChemistryD-37077 GottingenGermany 

出 版 物：《Molecular Plant》 (分子植物（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第7卷第4期

页      面：744-746页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 090706[农学-园林植物与观赏园艺] 0907[农学-林学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 

基　　金：The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ERC Grant Agreement this work was supported by a King Saud University grant (to R.H., E.N., and K.A.R.) 

主　　题：VENUS'S flytrap TURGOR 

摘      要：The Darwin plant, also known as the Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, has fascinated people since Darwin＇s time. The plant lives in nutrient-poor habitats but has been able to overcome the limitations of its surroundings by evolving a carnivorous lifestyle, particularly by modifying its leaves into active traps to catch animals. When flies, ants, or other small animals touch mechano-sensitive hairs protruding from the inner surface of the bi-lobed trap, it shuts within a fraction of a second.