Pitcher Plants Fine-Tune Their Deadly Pools for Maximum Carnivory
The carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes rafflesiana must maintain its fluid levels no matter the weather. These digestive fluids are vitally important to the capture and breakdown of the plant’s prey, and now, for the first time, scientists publishing in the Annals of Botany have shown that N. rafflesiana has the ability to regulate pitcher fluid volume in response to field conditions such as…












