Water Cannot Activate Traps of the Carnivorous Sundew Plant <i>Drosera capensis</i>: On the Trail of Darwin’s 150-Years-Old Mystery

In his famous book <i>Insectivorous plants</i>, Charles Darwin observed that the bending response of tentacles in the carnivorous sundew plant <i>Drosera rotundifolia</i> was not triggered by a drop of water, but rather the application of many dissolved chemicals or mechanica...

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Main Authors: Andrej Pavlovič, Ondřej Vrobel, Petr Tarkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-04-01
Series:Plants
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/9/1820