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. 1969 Mar;44(3):367-71.
doi: 10.1104/pp.44.3.367.

Digestive Secretion of Dionaea muscipula (Venus's Flytrap)

J Scala  1 , K Iott, D W Schwab, F E Semersky
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Digestive Secretion of Dionaea muscipula (Venus's Flytrap)

J Scala et al. Plant Physiol. 1969 Mar.

Abstract

The digestive fluid of Dionaea muscipula has been studied with respect to its protein content as a function of time after entrapment of protein material and some enzymes of the secretion. Maximum secretion of enzyme occurs within the first 3 days of the digestive cycle and protein reaches its maximum at 4 days. Phosphatase, proteinase, nuclease and amylase have been observed in the secretion. The enzymes have acid pH optima and the proteinase has a molecular weight of about 40,000.

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