Dr. Lubomir ADAMEC
Institute of Botany AS CR
Section of Plant Ecology

Nongrum I., Kumaria S., Tandom P., 2008. Multiplication through in vitro seed germination and pitcher development in Nepenthes khasiana Hook. f., a unique insectivorous plant of India. J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. 84: 329-333.

Bhan B. S., Medhi K., Sarkar T., Saikia S. P., 2009. PCR based molecular characterization of Nepenthes khasiana Hook. f. – pitcher plant. Genet. Res. Crop Evol. 56: 1183-1193.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2009. Nepenthes group Montanae (Nepenthaceae) in Indo-China, with N. thai and N. bokor described as new. Kew Bull. 64: 319-325.

Sreelatha T., Hymavathi A., Babu K. S., Murthy J. M., Pathipati U. R., Rao J. M., 2009. Synthesis and insect antifeedant activity of plumbagin derivatives with the amino acid moiety. J. Agricult. Food Chem. 57: 6090-6094.

Adlassnig W., Lendl T., Peroutka M., Lang I., 2010. Deadly glue - adhesive traps of carnivorous plants. In: Byern J. von, Grunwald I. (Eds.): Biological Adhesive Systems. From Nature to Technical and Medical Application. Springer Verlag, Vienna, pp. 15-28.

Zhang M., Lenaghan S. C., Xia L., Dong L., He W., Henson W. R., Fan X., 2010. Nanofibers and nanoparticles from the insect-capturing adhesive of the Sundew (Drosera) for cell attachment. J. Nanobiotechnol. 8: 20.

Trevisan R., Moço de M. C. C., 2011. (Occurrence of Utricularia olivacea C. Wright ex Griseb. (Lentibulariaceae) in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil). In Portug. Braz. J. Biosci. (Porto Alegre) 9: 249-251.

Adamec L., 2012. Firing and resetting characteristics of carnivorous Utricularia reflexa traps: Physiological or only physical regulation of trap triggering? Phyton 52: 281-290.

Anderson B., Kawakita A., Tayasu I., 2012. Sticky plant captures prey for symbiotic bug: is this digestive mutualism? Plant Biol. 14: 888-893.

Asirvatham R., Christina A. J. M., 2012. Drosera indica L.: Potential effect on liver enzyme, lipid profile and hormone change in Dalton’s lymphoma ascites (DLA) bearing mice. J. Intercult. Ethnopharmacol. 1: 69-73.

Asirvatham R., Christina A. J. M., 2012. Anticancer activity of Drosera indica L., on Dalton’s Lymphoma Ascites (DLA) bearing mice. J. Intercult. Ethnopharmacol. 1: 

Asirvatham R., Christina A. J. M., Anita M., 2012. Antitumor activity of ethanol and aqueous extracts of Drosera burmannii Vahl. in EAC bearing mice. Spatula DD 2: 83-88.

Bykova S. N., Kurbatova S. A., Ershov I. Yu., 2012. Microperiphyton and zooplankton in experimental ecosystems with hydrophytes. Inland Water Biol. 5: 342-349.

De Luccia T. P. B., 2012. Mimosa pudica, Dionaea muscipula and anesthetics. Plant Signal. Behav. 7: 1-5.

Devi S. P., Rao S. R., Kumaria S., Tandon P., 2012. Mitotic chromosome studies in Nepenthes khasiana, an endemic insectivorous plant of Northeast India. Cytologia 77: 381-384.

Domínguez Y., Panfet Valdés C. M., Miranda V. F. O. de, 2012. New features of Cuban endemic Pinguicula filifolia (Lentibulariaceae) and considerations on its habitat and ecology. Flora 207: 838– 841.

Fleischmann A., 2012. Monograph of the Genus Genlisea. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole, Dorset, England, U. K., p. 727.

Giovagnoli L., Tasimazzo S., 2012. Hymenostylio recurvirostri-Pinguiculetum poldinii ass. nova in the Valbrenta ravines (Venetian Prealps): a new palaeoendemic plant association belonging to the class Adiantetea Br.-Bl. 1948. Plant Sociol. 49: 49-58.

Gonella P. M., Rivadavia F., Sano P. T., 2012. Re-establishment of Drosera spiralis (Droseraceae), and a new circumscription of D. graminifolia. Phytotaxa 75: 43–57.

Gray S. M., 2012. Succession in the aquatic Sarracenia purpurea community: deterministic or driven by contingency? Aquat. Ecol. 46: 487–499.

Gray S. M., Akob D. M., Green S. J., Kostka J. E., 2012. The bacterial composition within the Sarracenia purpurea model system: local scale differences and the relationship with the other members of the food web. PLoS ONE  7: e50969.   

Harris C. S., Asim M., Saleem A., Haddad P. S., Arnason J. T., Bennett S.A.L., 2012. Characterizing the cytoprotective activity of Sarracenia purpurea L., a medicinal plant that inhibits glucotoxicity in PC12 cells. BMC Complement. Altern. Med.12: 245.

He Y., He Z., He F., Wan H., 2012. Determination of quercetin, plumbagin and total flavonoids in Drosera peltata Smith var. glabrata YZRuan. Pharmacog. Mag. 8: 263-267.

He J.,  Zain A., 2012. Photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism of Nepenthes alata in response to inorganic NO3− and organic prey N in the greenhouse. Int. Schol. Res. Netw. Botany, Article ID 63270.

Ishisaki K., Arai S., Hamada T., Honda Y. 2012. Biochemical characterization of a recombinant plant class III chitinase from the pitcher of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes alata. Carbohydr. Res. 361: 170-174.

Jobson R.W., 2012. Utricularia corneliana R.W.Jobson, (Lentibulariaceae), a new species from the North Kennedy district of Queensland. Austrobaileya 8: 601–607.

Jobson, R. W., Conn B. J., 2012. Utricularia subulata L. (Lentibulariaceae): a new weed record of an Australian native for New South Wales, Australia. Telopea 14: 83-88.

Jobson, R. W., Conn B. J., 2012. Drosera capensis (Droseraceae), a new naturalised record for Australia. Telopea 14: 89-92.

Luken J. O., 2012. Long-term outcomes of Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) establishment. Restor. Ecol. 20: 669-670.

McPherson S., Schnell D., 2012. Field Guide to the Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada.  Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole, Dorset, England, 200 p.

Milne M. A., 2012. The purple pitcher plant as a spider oviposition site. Southeast. Natur. 11: 567-574.

Nongrum I., Kumar S., Kumaria S., Tandon P., 2012. Genetic variation and gene flow estimation of Nepenthes khasiana Hook. f. – a threatened insectivorous plant of India as revealed by RAPD markers. J. Crop Sci. Biotechnol. 15: 101-105.

Rasic G., Keyghobadi N., 2012. The pitcher plant flesh fly exhibits a mixture of patchy and metapopulation attributes. J. Hered.103: 703–710.

Schulze W. X., Sanggaard K. W., Kreuzer I., Knudsen A. D., Bemm F., Thogersen  I. B., Braeutigam A., Thomsen L. R., Schliesky S., Dyrlund T. F., Escalante-Perez  M., Becker D., Schultz J., Karring H., Weber A., Hojrup P., Hedrich R., Enghild J. J.,  2012. The protein composition of the digestive fluid from the Venus flytrap sheds light on prey digestion mechanisms. Mol. Cell. Proteom. 11: 1306-1319.

Theodoropoulos K., Eleftheriadou E., 2012. Drosera rotundifolia L. (Droseraceae). A rare and endangered species for the Flora of Greece. J. Environ. Protect. Ecol. 13: 1405-1411. 

Yee C. M., Rahman R. A., Haron N. W., 2012. Micro-structure studies on Chirita and Utricularia of Peninsular Malaysia. Pakistan J. Bot. 44: 2063-2066.

Adamec L., 2013. Foliar mineral nutrient uptake in carnivorous plants: what do we know and what should we know? Front. Plant Sci. 4: 10.

Adamec L., 2013. A comparison of photosynthetic and respiration rates in six aquatic carnivorous Utricularia species differing in morphology. Aquat. Bot. 111: 89–94.

Adamec L., Kučerová A., 2013. Overwintering temperatures affect freezing temperatures of turions of aquatic plants. Flora 208: 497-501.

Asirvatham R., Christina A. J. M. , Murali A., 2013. In vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity studies on Drosera indica L. Droseraceae). Adv. Pharmacol. Bull. 3: 115-120.

Bailey T., McPherson S., 2013. Dionaea: the Venus’s Flytrap. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole, Dorset, England, 448 p.

Baiser B., Buckley H. L., Gotelli N. J., Ellison A. M., 2013. Oikos 122: 492-506. Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models.

Bauer U., Scharmann M., Skepper J., Federle W., 2013. ‘Insect aquaplaning’ on a superhydrophilic hairy surface: how Heliamphora nutans Benth. pitcher plants capture prey. Proc. R. Soc. B 280: 20122569.

Braunberger C., Zehl M., Conrad J., Fischer S., Adhami H. R., Beifuss U., Krenn L.,  2013. LC-NMR, NMR, and LC-MS identification and LC-DAD quantification of flavonoids and ellagic acid derivatives in Drosera peltata. J. Chromatogr. B 932:  111-116.

Buch F., Rott M., Rottloff S., Paetz C., Hilke I., Raessler M., Mithöfer A., 2013. Secreted pitfall-trap fluid of carnivorous Nepenthes plants is unsuitable for microbial growth. Ann. Bot. 111: 375–383.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2013. Identification and typification of Nepenthes blancoi, with N. abalata sp nov from the western Visayas, Philippines. Nord. J. Bot. 31: 151-156.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2013. Typification and redelimitation of Nepenthes alata with notes on the N. alata group, and N. negros sp. nov. from the Philippines. Nord. J. Bot. 31: 616-622.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2013. Nepenthes ramos (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Mindanao, Philippines. Willdenowia 43: 107-111.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2013. Nepenthes alzapan (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Luzon, Philippines. Phytotaxa 100: 57-60.

Cheek M., Jebb M., 2013. Nepenthes samar (Nepenthaceae), a new species from Samar, Philippines. Blumea 58: 82-84.

Cross A., Merritt D., Turner S. R., Dixon K. W., 2013. Seed germination of the carnivorous plant Byblis gigantea (Byblidaceae) is cued by warm stratification and karrikinolide. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 173: 143–152.

Czeczuga B., Godlewska A., Semeniuk J., Czeczuga-Semeniuk E., Kosielinski P., 2013. Distribution of fungi and straminipiles in different stem parts of submerged aquatic plants. Nova Hedw. 97: 239-250.

Devi S. P., Kumaria S., Rao S. R., Tandon P., 2013. In vitro propagation and assessment of clonal fidelity of Nepenthes khasiana Hook. f.: a medicinal insectivorous plant of India. Acta Physiol. Plant. 35: 2813-2820.

Eisen D., Janssen D., Chen X., Choa F.-S., Kostov D., Fan J., 2013. Closing a Venus Flytrap with electrical and mid-IR photon stimulations. In: Kollias N. et al. (eds.), Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics IX, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8565, 85655I.

Furches M. S., Small R. L., Furches A., 2013. Hybridization leads to interspecific gene flow in Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae). Am. J. Bot. 100: 2085-2091.

Furches M. S., Small R. L., Furches A., 2013. Genetic diversity in three endangered pitcher plant species (Sarracenia; Sarraceniaceae) is lower than widespread congeners. Am. J. Bot. 100: 2092-2101.

Gibson R., 2013. Drosera bulbosa subsp. coronata (Droseraceae) from the northern goldfields region of Western Australia. Telopea 15: 99–105.

Hoyo Y., Tsuyuzaki S., 2013. Characteristics of leaf shapes among two parental Drosera species and a hybrid examined by canonical discriminant analysis and a hierarchical Bayesian model. Am. J. Bot. 100: 817-823.

Ibarra-Laclette E., Lyons E., Hernández-Guzmán G., Pérez-Torres C. A., Carretero-Paulet L., Chang T.-H., Lan T., Welch A. J., Juárez M. J. A., Simpson J., Fernández-Cortés A., Arteaga-Vázquez M., Góngora-Castillo E., Acevedo-Hernández G., Schuster S. C., Himmelbauer H., Minoche A. E., Xu S., Lynch M., Oropeza-Aburto A., Cervantes-Pérez S. A., Ortega-Estrada M. J., Cervantes-Luevano J. I., Michael T. P., Mockler T., Bryant D., Herrera-Estrella A., Albert V. A., Herrera-Estrella L., 2013. Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome. Nature 498: 94-98.

Iosilevskii G., Joel D. M., 2013. Aerodynamic trapping effect and its implications for capture of flying insects by carnivorous pitcher plants. Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids 38: 65-72.

Jobson R. W., 2013. Five new species of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) from Australia. Telopea 15: 127–142.

Karberg J. M., Gale M. R., 2013. Influence of surface water mineral nutrition on the plasticity of Sarracenia purpurea in Sphagnum fens, marl wetlands, and sand savannahs. Wetlands 33: 631-639.

Kurup R., Johnson A. J., Sankar S., Hussain A. A., Kumar C. S., Baby S., 2013. Fluorescent prey traps in carnivorous plants. Plant Biol. 15: 611-615.

Leroy C., Carrias J. F., Corbara B., Pelozuelo L., Dezerald O., Brouard O., Dejean A., Cereghino R., 2013. Mutualistic ants contribute to tank-bromeliad nutrition. Ann. Bot. 112: 919-926.

Leushkin E. V., Sutormin R. A., Nabieva E. R., Penin A. A., Kondrashov A. S., Logacheva M. D., 2013. The miniature genome of a carnivorous plant Genlisea aurea contains a low number of genes and short non-coding sequences. BMC Genomics 14: 476.

Menezes V. C. de, Bueno N. C., Sobjak T. M., Bortolini J. C., Temponi L. G., 2013. [Zygnemaphyceae associated with Utricularia foliosa in Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil.] In Portug. Iheringia, Sér. Bot. (Porto Alegre) 68: 5-26.

Michalko J., Socha P., Mészáros P., Blehová A., Libantová J., Moravčíková J., Matušíková I., 2013. Glucan‑rich diet is digested and taken up by the carnivorous sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.): implication for a novel role of plant β‑1,3‑glucanases. Planta 238: 715-725.

Milne M. A., Waller D. A., 2013. Does pitcher plant morphology affect spider residency? Northeast. Natur. 20: 419-429.

Moran J. A., Gray L. K., Clarke C., Chin L., 2013. Capture mechanism in Palaeotropical pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae) is constrained by climate. Ann. Bot. 112: 1279–1291.

Muhammad A., Haddad P. S., Durst T., Arnason J. T., 2013. Phytochemical constituents of Sarracenia purpurea L. (pitcher plant). Phytochemistry 94: 238-242.

Naidoo Y., Heneidak S., 2013. Morphological investigation of glandular hairs on Drosera capensis leaves with an ultrastructural study of the sessile glands. Botany 91: 234-241.

Nakamura Y., Reichelt M., Mayer V. E., Mithöfer A., 2013. Jasmonates trigger prey-induced formation of ‘outer stomach’ in carnivorous sundew plants. Proc. R. Soc. B 280: 20130228.

Nishi A. H., Vasconcellos-Neto J., Romero G. Q., 2013. The role of multiple partners in a digestive mutualism with a protocarnivorous plant. Ann. Bot. 111: 143-150.

Nishimura E., Kawahara M., Kodaira R., Kume M., Arai N., Nishikawa J., Ohyama T., 2013. S-like ribonuclease gene expression in carnivorous plants. Planta: 238: 955-967.

Ogihara H., Endou F., Furukawa S., Matsufuji H., Suzuki K., Anzai H., 2013. Antimicrobial activity of the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula against food-related pathogenic and putrefactive bacteria. Biocontrol Sci. 18: 151-155.

Pagitz M., Bold J., 2013. Shape-changing shell-like structures. Bioinspir. Biomim. 8: 016010.

Płachno B. J., Świątek P., Sas-Nowosielska H., Kozieradzka-Kiszkurno M., 2013. Organisation of the endosperm and endosperm–placenta syncytia in bladderworts (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae) with emphasis on the microtubule arrangement. Protoplasma 250: 863-873.

Poppinga S., Hartmeyer S. R. H., Masselter T., Hartmeyer I., Speck T, 2013. Trap diversity and evolution in the family Droseraceae. Plant Signal. Behav. 8: e24685.

Poppinga S., Masselter T., Speck T., 2013. Faster than their prey: New insights into the rapid movements of active carnivorous plants traps. Bioassays 35: 649–657.

Rembold  K., Fischer E., Striffler B. F., Barthlott W., 2013. Crab spider association with the Malagasy pitcher plant Nepenthes madagascariensis. Afr. J. Ecol. 51: 188-191.

Renner T., Specht C. D., 2013. Inside the trap: gland morphologies, digestive enzymes, and the evolution of plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 16: 436-442.

Rey M., Yang M., Burns K. M., Yu Y. P., Lees-Miller S. P., Schriemer D. C., 2013. Nepenthesin from monkey cups for hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Mol. Cell. Proteom. 12: 464-472.

Rivadavia F., Gonella P. M., Fleischmann A., 2013. A new and tuberous species of Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae) from the Campos Rupestres of Brazil. Syst. Bot. 38: 464–470.

Rodrigues dos Santos T., Carla Ferragut C., de Mattos Bicudo C. E., 2013. Does macrophyte architecture influence periphyton? Relationships among Utricularia foliosa, periphyton assemblage structure and its nutrient (C, N, P) status. Hydrobiologia 714: 71–83.

Scharmann M., Grafe T. U., 2013. Reinstatement of Nepenthes hemsleyana (Nepenthaceae), an endemic pitcher plant from Borneo, with a discussion of associated

Nepenthes taxa. Blumea 58: 8-12.

Scharmann M., Thornham D. G., Grafe T. U., Federle W., 2013. A novel type of nutritional ant–plant interaction: Ant partners of carnivorous pitcher plants prevent nutrient export by dipteran pitcher infauna. PLoS ONE 8: e63556.

Schenková J., Čermák V., 2013. Description of Pristina armata n. sp (Clitellata: Naididae: Pristininae) from a carnivorous plant (Nepenthes sp.) in Borneo, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3686: 587-592.

Scherzer S., Król E., Kreuzer I., Kruse J., Karl F., von Rüden M., Escalante-Perez M., Müller T., Rennenberg H., Al-Rasheid K. A. S., Neher E., Hedrich R., 2013. The Dionaea muscipula ammonium channel DmAMT1 provides NH4+ uptake associated with Venus flytrap’s prey digestion. Curr. Biol. 23: 1-9.

Schöner C. R., Schöner M. G., Kerth G., Grafe T. U., 2013. Supply determines demand: influence of partner quality and quantity on the interactions between bats and pitcher plants. Oecologia 173: 191-202.

Sirota J., Baiser B., Gotelli N., Ellison A. M., 2013. Organic-matter loading determines regime shifts and alternative states in an aquatic ecosystem. PNAS USA 110: 7742-7747.

Urban R. A., Titus J. E., Hansen H. H., 2013. Positive feedback favors invasion by a submersed freshwater plant. Oecologia 172: 515-523.

Volkov A. G., Harris S. L., II, Vilfranc C. L., Murphy V. A., Wooten J. D., Paulicin H., Volkova M. I., Markin V. S., 2013. Venus flytrap biomechanics: Forces in the Dionaea muscipula trap. J. Plant Physiol. 170: 25-32.

Volkov A. G., Vilfranc C. L., Murphy V. A., Mitchell C. M., Volkova M. I., O'Neal L., Markin V. S., 2013. Electrotonic and action potentials in the Venus flytrap. J. Plant Physiol. 170: 838-846.

Vredenberg W., Pavlovič A., 2013. Chlorophyll a fluorescence induction (Kautsky curve) in a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) leaf after mechanical trigger hair irritation. J. Plant Physiol. 170: 242-250.

Whitney H. M., Federle W., 2013. Biomechanics of plant–insect interactions. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 16: 105-111.