New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
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Re: New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest
#2What an interesting find! The biodiversity of our home planet is amazing.
If you enjoy learning more about carnivorous plants, I highly recommend 'Plants Behaving Badly' on PBS[1].
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#4> "I suspect," says Graham, "that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think"
This is a pretty interesting closing idea. From the article it seems they were originally flagged to this by a genomic commonality with other carnivorous plants. What percentage of plant genomes are sequenced that could be searched for this similar deletion?
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#5Now we just need to bio-engineer them to grow larger stems, so that they could catch larger flies. And voila - natural (and pretty) fly paper!
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#6read the title as Coronavirus Plant
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#7"Nobody would be looking at a flower stalk as the primary mode of carnivory"
This is probably exactly what the plant is betting on. It's a nice perceptive check on our own individual intelligence as humans.
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#8Faszinating! :)
Having looked into carnivorous plants for a while, I am so glad they never grew significantly bigger...
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#9When you think of climate change, think of all the habitats that are being altered and how that might lead to extinction of plants with unique and unknown characteristics.
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#10Now we just need to bio-engineer them to grow larger stems, so that they could catch larger flies. And voila - natural (and pretty) fly paper!
The fly paper angle is interesting, larger stems could probably be done with traditional breeding methods. Hard predict how well it would work though.