Re: First protozoa-trapping plant found (Genlisea)

From: ricell@juno.com
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 16:56:22 PDT


Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:56:22 -0600
From: ricell@juno.com
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg1202$foo@default>
Subject: Re: First protozoa-trapping plant found (Genlisea)

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 Jack Sullivan <jsulliva@eclipse.net> writes:
>That's the headline of a brief note submitted to the journal Nature
>(v.392, 2 April 1998) by researchers at the Botanisches Institut der
>Universitat Bonn. The senior author is Wilhelm Barthlott
>(barthlott@uni-bonn.de).

I would have thought that many of the bladderworts could routinely trap
protozoa. Is this:
A. Untrue
B. Perhaps true but never confirmed
C. True but unknown to the authors of this paper
D. None of the above

BTW - thank you for posting about this CP related article!

Richard Ellis, Boulder, CO, "ricell@juno.com"
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8564/



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