Chemical composition of epicuticular wax crystals on the slippery zone in pitchers of five Nepenthes species and hybrids

2006/11/16 by Michael Riedel, Anna Eichner, Harald Meimberg +1 · 11 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

paper · doi:10.1007/s00425-006-0437-3

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Citations

• Molecular Phylogeny of Nepenthaceae Based on Cladistic Analysis of Plastid trnK Intron Sequence Data
• Comparative analysis of a translocated copy of the trnK intron in carnivorous family Nepenthaceae

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