How Venus flytrap triggers digestion

Friday, April 21, 2017 - 09:21 in Biology & Nature

Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Catching its prey, mainly insects, with a trapping structure formed by its leaves, the plants’ glands secrete an enzyme to decompose the prey and take up the ... Read more

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