Isolation of Viable Multicellular Glands from Tissue of the Carnivorous Plant, NepenthesSandy Rottloff 1, Axel Mithöfer 2, Ute Müller 3, Roland Kilper 3
1Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement, Université de Lorraine, 2Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 3aura optik
Plants glands are specialized structures responsible for the biosynthesis and secretion of many compounds involved in interactions with the biotic environment. To enable studies on their molecular and biochemical features, a mechanical micropreparation technique was established in order to isolate single metabolically active glands, here from the carnivorous plant Nepenthes.
