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Media reports about 'The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula counts prey-induced action potentials to induce sodium uptake'

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Bohm, J and Scherzer, S and Krol, E and Kreuzer, I and von Meyer, K and Lorey, C and Mueller, TD and Shabala, L and Monte, I and Solano, R and Al-Rasheid, KAS and Rennenberg, H and Shabala, S and Neher, E and Hedrich, R, Media reports about 'The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula counts prey-induced action potentials to induce sodium uptake', Current Biology, 26 (2016) [Report Other]

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.057

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Media stories about the paper "The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula counts prey-induced action potentials to induce sodium uptake":

BBC News - Venus flytrap 'counts' to control digestion

The Denver Post - You can count on Venus flytraps knowing when to chomp

Mid Day Daily - Venus flytraps use math in order to catch prey

Nature - Plants count to five

Washington Post - The venus flytrap has a really creepy trick for catching its prey/

ScienceDaily - Hunting secrets of the Venus flytrap (hint: They can count)

Telegraph UK - Venus flytraps use maths to trap and eat their prey

ABC News Australia - Venus flytrap plants can count to five

SciNews - Biologists: carnivorous Venus flytraps can count

Fox News - Deadly math: Venus flytraps calculate when killing prey

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula counts prey-induced action potentials to induce sodium uptake

Item Details

Item Type:Report Other
Keywords:newspaper links, nutrient uptake, Dionaea muscipula, action potential
Research Division:Physical Sciences
Research Group:Medical and biological physics
Research Field:Biological physics
Objective Division:Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
UTAS Author:Bohm, J (Ms Jennifer Bohm)
UTAS Author:Shabala, L (Associate Professor Lana Shabala)
UTAS Author:Shabala, S (Professor Sergey Shabala)
UTAS Author:Hedrich, R (Professor Rainer Hedrich)
ID Code:112905
Year Published:2016
Web of Science® Times Cited:90
Deposited By:Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture
Deposited On:2016-12-03
Last Modified:2022-06-29
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