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Carnivorous Sarracenia pitcher plants appear to produce different odors to attract specific groups of prey

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Volatile organic compounds influence prey composition in Sarracenia carnivorous plants

image: Pitchers of the four studied Sarracenia taxa. (A) S. purpurea, (B) S. X mitchelliana, (C) S. X Juthatip soper, (D) S. X leucophylla. view more 

Credit: Dupont et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Carnivorous Sarracenia pitcher plants appear to produce different odors to attract specific groups of prey

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277603

Article Title: Volatile organic compounds influence prey composition in Sarracenia carnivorous plants

Author Countries: France

Funding: This work was publicly supported by the French National Research Agency & MUSE University (ANR-16-IDEX-0006 to L.G, C.V. and D.G. under the “Investissements d’avenir” program), which funded material and plants, as well as the PhD salary of CD. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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