... Larves de Culicidés par les Plantes du Genre Utricularia. Ann. de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 3, pp. ... Ueber die Art und Bedeutung des Tierfangs bei Utricularia vulgaris L. Ber. der deutsch. bot. Gesellschaft, 6, ... Ueber die Function der Blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia. Cohn's Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen, 1 ( ... Observations sur un Mode Particulier de Propagation des Utricularia. Bull. de la Soc. bot. de France, 5, ... 13 Ekambaram, T. Irritability of the Bladders in Utricularia. Agric. Journ. India, 11 (Special No.), pp. 72– ...
Tópico(s): Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
1928 - Wiley | New Phytologist
SUMMARY 1. The effects of the carnivorous plant Utricularia ( bladderwort) on its microcrustacean and macroinvertebrate prey were ... seminatural and natural conditions. The results suggest that Utricularia is a strong interactor in littoral communities that ... 2) U. vulgaris without bladders and (3) no Utricularia present. 3. Utricularia predation caused a decrease in prey density over time, whereas presence of Utricularia without bladders increased prey density. In the controls without Utricularia , prey density was relatively constant over time. 4. ...
Tópico(s): Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
2002 - Wiley | Freshwater Biology
Utricularia aurea Lour., an Old World aquatic of the section Utricularia, may produce a whorl of floats shortly above ... some but not all developmental processes in common. Utricularia aurea is compared with other members of the section Utricularia in order to find the developmental pattern typical ... for the various species within the section, including Utricularia australis R.Br., Utricularia foliosa L., Utricularia macrorhiza LeConte, Utricularia stellaris L.f., and Utricularia vulgaris L.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1993 - Elsevier BV | Aquatic Botany
Mario Beretta, Graziella Rodondi, Lubomı́r Adamec, Carlo Andreis,
... pollen morphology of the seven known European bladderworts: Utricularia australis, Utricularia bremii, Utricularia intermedia, Utricularia minor, Utricularia ochroleuca, Utricularia stygia and Utricularia vulgaris was studied. Their pollen grains, coming from ... colpori and exine ornamentation: important diagnostic characteristics for Utricularia pollen. Within the investigated species, the pollen grains ... symmetric and zonocolporate. For the non-fruiting species Utricularia bremii, Utricularia stygia and Utricularia ochroleuca, the grains ...
Tópico(s): Plant Molecular Biology Research
2014 - Elsevier BV | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Adam Veleba, Petr Bureš, Lubomı́r Adamec, Petr Šmarda, Ivana Lipnerová, Lucie Horová,
... family, that is, the genera Genlisea, Pinguicula and Utricularia. Until recently, however, genome size is known only ... Lentibulariaceae species, which contains 29 Genlisea, c. 233 Utricularia and c. 101 Pinguicula species. This provides the ... tendency for genome miniaturization is most remarkable in Utricularia (Fig. 1), where ultra-small genomes (1C < 100 ... U. sect. Vesiculina – (U. purpurea) and U. sect. Utricularia (U. floridana; not shown in the phylogenetic tree because of absence of sequence data). Beyond Utricularia, other prominent miniaturization is found in Genlisea. Here, ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2014 - Wiley | New Phytologist
Firing and resetting of traps in aquatic Utricularia species are associated with water flow and trap volume changes. In this study, trap thickness was used as a measure of water flow ... were measured in isolated traps from 13 aquatic Utricularia species and in two trap size categories in Utricularia reflexa. This allowed to study the relationship between ... day period. On the absolute scale, the 13 Utricularia species differed considerably in their firing and resetting ... unit trap thickness or length. Overall, traps of Utricularia australis, Utricularia stellaris and Utricularia inflata showed the ...
Tópico(s): Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
2011 - Elsevier BV | Aquatic Botany
Bartosz J. Płachno, Konrad Wołowski, Andreas Fleischmann, Allen Lowrie, Magdalena Łukaszek,
The carnivorous plant genus Utricularia comprises three monophyletic subgenera, Polypompholyx, Bivalvaria, and Utricularia; however, all Utricularia species produce sophisticated suction traps. Most studies on the ... were performed on the derived aquatic bladderworts from Utricularia subgenus Utricularia, section Utricularia, thus our knowledge about phytotelmata in bladderworts is ... the data obtained for aquatic bladderworts from section Utricularia, thus suggesting that the type of trigger mechanism ...
Tópico(s): Plant Molecular Biology Research
2014 - CSIRO Publishing | Australian Journal of Botany
Bartosz J. Płachno, Lubomı́r Adamec, Iwona Kamińska,
Abstract The suction traps of carnivorous Utricularia species are hollow bladders of foliar origin which trap and digest small organisms. In this paper, the trap wall anatomy and thickness in nine Australian Utricularia species belonging to three generic sections (Pleiochasia, Polypompholyx, ... hypothesized that there is a close relationship between Utricularia trap wall anatomy and functional trap characteristics – species ... layered trap walls. The trap walls of all Utricularia species studied using light microscopy consisted of two ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2014 - Elsevier BV | Aquatic Botany
Giovanni Astuti, Lorenzo Peruzzi,
In central Europe, seven native species of Utricularia occur, mainly distinguished by flower features. They can be subdivided in three aggregates according to shoot morphology: (1) Utricularia intermedia aggr., also comprising Utricularia ochroleuca and Utricularia stygia, (2) Utricularia vulgaris aggr., also comprising Utricularia australis and (3) Utricularia minor aggr., also comprising Utricularia bremii. We tested some shoot features as identification ...
Tópico(s): Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology

Bartosz J. Płachno, Małgorzata Stpiczyńska, Piotr Świątek, Hans Lambers, Gregory R. Cawthray, Francis J. Nge, Saura R. Silva, Vitor F. O. Miranda,
Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) is a genus comprising around 240 species of herbaceous, carnivorous plants. Utricularia is usually viewed as an insect-pollinated genus, ... of a few bird-pollinated species. The bladderworts Utricularia multifida and U. tenella are interesting species because they represent an early evolutionary Utricularia branch and have some unusual morphological characters in ... U. tenella are similar to those of other Utricularia species from the subgenera Polypompholyx and Utricularia, (ii) ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | PROTOPLASMA

Bartosz J. Płachno, Lubomı́r Adamec, Piotr Świątek, Małgorzata Kapusta, Vitor F. O. Miranda,
Rheophytism is extremely rare in the Utricularia genus (there are four strictly rheophytic species out of a total of about 260). Utricularia neottioides is an aquatic rheophytic species exclusively growing attached to bedrocks in the South American streams. Utricularia neottioides was considered to be trap-free by ... anatomy of rheophytic U. neottioides with an aquatic Utricularia species with a typical linear monomorphic shoot from the section Utricularia, U. reflexa, which grows in standing or very ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Molecular Sciences
A. Lowrie, Ian Cowie, John G. Conran,
A minute, reddish-purple-flowered, new species of Utricularia L. subgenus Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) is described and illustrated: Utricularia simmonsii Lowrie, Cowie & Conran from the western Top ... flowered carnivorous plant.It shows some affinities to Utricularia sections Enskide and Pleiochasia, but possesses a combination of features not found in any other Utricularia species.The tiny flowers have an open, gullet ... Minutae Lowrie, Cowie & Conran.A key to the Utricularia taxa found in Northern Australia is also provided.
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2008 - National Herbarium of NSW | Telopea
Jiří Bárta, James D. Stone, Jiří Pech, Dagmara Sirová, Lubomı́r Adamec, Matthew A. Campbell, Helena Štorchová,
The species of Utricularia attract attention not only owing to their carnivorous lifestyle, but also due to an elevated substitution rate and a ... aquatic carnivorous genus, we analyzed the transcriptome of Utricularia vulgaris, a temperate species with well characterized physiology ... transcript profile, with a previously described transcriptome of Utricularia gibba, a congener possessing one of the smallest ... the two rootless species. The species-rich genus Utricularia offers a unique opportunity to study adaptations related ...
Tópico(s): Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
2015 - BioMed Central | BMC Plant Biology

Saura R. Silva, Yani Aranguren, Helen Alves Penha, Daniel Guariz Pinheiro, Camila C. Fernandes, Vitor F. O. Miranda, Todd P. Michael, Alessandro M. Varani,
... plants spanning three genera including Pinguicula, Genlisea, and Utricularia. Utricularia is globally distributed, and, unlike Pinguicula and Genlisea, ... of the chloroplast (cp) genome of the terrestrial Utricularia reniformis. U. reniformis has a standard cp genome ... aquatic and terrestrial forms of Pinguicula, Genlisea, and Utricularia indicate that, whereas the aquatic forms retained functional ... gene loss and recovery among Pinguicula, Genlisea, and Utricularia to the ancestral Lentibulariaceae cladeare proposed. Interestingly, RNAseq ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2016 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE

Bartosz J. Płachno, Małgorzata Stpiczyńska, Łukasz Krajewski, Piotr Świątek, Lubomı́r Adamec, Vitor F. O. Miranda,
... the flower palate of the carnivorous rootless genus Utricularia. This study aims to examine the structure of the palates in Utricularia bremii Heer and U. minor L of the Utricularia sect. Utricularia, which have a glandular palate type. In both ... as flower visitors of the male-sterile species Utricularia bremii.
Tópico(s): Plant Molecular Biology Research
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | PROTOPLASMA
Alexander A. Bobrov, Polina A. Volkova, Yuriy O. Kopylov-Guskov, О. А. Мочалова, Anastasiya E. Kravchuk, Dariya M. Nekrasova,
Most of Utricularia taxa in temperate Eurasia are poorly distinguished by vegetative characters, while flowering is rare in some of them. ... clarify the taxonomy and distribution of temperate Eurasian Utricularia. We supplemented the existing results of intensive morphological and genetic studies of Utricularia mainly from West and Central Europe with our ... regions of Russia. We demonstrated that temperate Eurasian Utricularia taxa could be easily discriminated with barcoding approach ... should not be applied to any of them. Utricularia ochroleuca and U. stygia represent a complex of ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2021 - Elsevier BV | Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Vitor F. O. Miranda, Saura R. Silva, Markus S. Reut, Hugo Dolsan, Piotr Stolarczyk, Rolf Rutishauser, Bartosz J. Płachno,
The genus Utricularia includes around 250 species of carnivorous plants, commonly known as bladderworts. The generic name Utricularia was coined by Carolus Linnaeus in reference to ... the formal proposition by Linnaeus, many species of Utricularia were described, but only scarce information about the biology for most species is known. All Utricularia species are herbs with vegetative organs that do ... of morphological classification. Since the formal description of Utricularia in the 18th century, the trap function has ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Plants
Dagmara Sirová, Jakub Borovec, Hana Šantrůčková, Jiří Šantrůček, Jaroslav Vrba, Lubomı́r Adamec,
The rootless, aquatic Utricularia species belong to the largest and most cosmopolitan carnivorous plant genus. Populations of Utricularia plants are an important component of many standing, ... waters. Carbon (C) allocation is an aspect of Utricularia's ecophysiology that has not been studied previously ... of increasing age and trap fluid in two Utricularia species. Both species allocated a majority of the ... as for the growth and ecology of aquatic Utricularia is discussed.
Tópico(s): Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
2009 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Experimental Botany
Richard W. Jobson, J. Playford, Kenneth M. Cameron, Victor A. Albert,
... The genus Pinguicula is sister to a Genlisea-Utricularia clade, the phylogenetic structure within this clade closely ... on morphology. Three principal clades are shown within Utricularia, with the basal sections Polypompholyx and Pleiochasia together forming the sister lineage of the remaining Utricularia species. Of the fundamental morphological specializations, the stoloniferous growth form apparently arose independently within Genlisea and Utricularia three times, and within Utricularia itself, perhaps more ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2003 - American Society of Plant Taxonomists | Systematic Botany
Dagmara Sirová, Jakub Borovec, Barbora Černá, Eliška Rejmánková, Lubomı́r Adamec, Jaroslav Vrba,
... trap fluid of three aquatic carnivorous species of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) to assess the role of microbial community ... microbial community seems to be largely derived from Utricularia associated periphyton. PLFA analysis revealed that trap fluid ... phosphorus rather than nitrogen for the nutrition of Utricularia. Our findings support the hypothesis that mutualism, apart ... prey interaction, is an important association in aquatic Utricularia traps and that the trap-associated microbial community may be of benefit to the rootless aquatic Utricularia species facing problems with P acquisition due to ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2008 - Elsevier BV | Aquatic Botany
... It has previously been reported by authors that Utricularia species lack a filiform apparatus in the synergids. ... a filiform apparatus occurs in the synergids of Utricularia and its sister genus Genlisea, and to compare ... possess a filiform apparatus; however, it seems that Utricularia quelchii synergids have a simpler structure compared to ... probably also located in that position in common Utricularia ancestor. This ancestral characteristic still occurs in some ... contact with nutritive tissue, appeared independently in different Utricularia lineages and as a consequence of this, the ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | PROTOPLASMA
Enrique Ibarra‐Laclette, Victor A. Albert, Claudia Pérez-Torres, Flor Zamudio-Hernández, María De Jesús Ortega-Estrada, Alfredo Herrera‐Estrella, Luís Herrera‐Estrella,
The carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba (bladderwort) is remarkable in having a minute genome, which at ca. 80 megabases is approximately half that of ... plants with a diversity of unusual vegetative forms. Utricularia plants, which are rootless, are also anomalous in ... in the genus, no genomic resources exist for Utricularia, and the substitution rate increase has received limited ... we describe the sequencing and analysis of the Utricularia gibba transcriptome. Three different organs were surveyed, the ...
Tópico(s): Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
2011 - BioMed Central | BMC Plant Biology
Dagmara Sirová, Jakub Borovec, Tomáš Picek, Lubomı́r Adamec, Linda Nedbalová, Jaroslav Vrba,
Rootless aquatic carnivorous Utricularia exude up to 25% of their photosynthates into the trap lumen, which also harbours a complex microbial community thought to play a role in enhancing Utricularia nutrient acquisition. We investigated the composition of organic ... prokaryotic assemblages within the traps of three aquatic Utricularia species. Using ion chromatography and basal respiration rate ... to 30% of total dissolved organic carbon in Utricularia trap fluid in oligotrophic conditions was easily biodegradable ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2011 - CSIRO Publishing | Functional Plant Biology
Abstract: In aquatic species of carnivorous Utricularia, about 10—50% of the total biomass consists of bladders. Utricularia bladders are physiologically very active organs though their chlorophyll content may ... and leaves or shoot segments of six aquatic Utricularia species with differentiated (U. ochroleuca, U. intermedia, U. ... s ‐1 PAR). RD of bladders of six Utricularia species (5.1 — 8.6 mmol kg ‐1 ... same as that in bladders containing prey. Though Utricularia bladders are essential for uptake of growth limiting ...
Tópico(s): Light effects on plants
2006 - Wiley | Plant Biology
Bartosz J. Płachno, Małgorzata Stpiczyńska, Piotr Świątek, Kevin L. Davies,
... to some authors, flowers of the Australian bladderwort Utricularia dunlopii (and species of the Utricularia capilliflora complex) resemble insects, and pollination perhaps occurs ... function. Floral tissues of U. dunlopii P. Taylor, Utricularia paulinae Lowrie, Utricularia dichotoma Labill. and Utricularia uniflora R.Br. (section Pleiochasia) were investigated using ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2015 - Springer Science+Business Media | PROTOPLASMA
Sarah Grimké Faragher, Robert G. Jaeger,
... between tadpoles of the southern leopard frog (Rana utricularia) and those of the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea). Water preconditioned byR. utricularia tadpoles significantly decreased the growth and increased the ... tadpoles compared with control treatments. In addition, R. utricularia tadpoles inhibited the feeding rate ofH. cinerea tadpolesby ... increased the mortality of theH. cinerea tadpoles. Rana utricularia tadpoles apparently use both chemical interference and aggressive ... of larval H. cinerea. In natural ponds, R. utricularia tadpoles that inhibit the growth and increase the ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
1998 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Zoology

Bartosz J. Płachno, Małgorzata Stpiczyńska, Lubomı́r Adamec, Vitor F. O. Miranda, Piotr Świątek,
In Utricularia, the flower spur is a nectary and in this organ, nectar is produced and stored. This study ... the structure of the nectary trichomes in four Utricularia species (Utricularia vulgaris L., U. australis R.Br., U. bremii ... and U. foliosa L.) from the generic section Utricularia. We have investigated whether species with different spur ... similar spur anatomy and nectary trichome structure. In Utricularia flowers, nectar is produced by spur capitate trichomes ( ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | PROTOPLASMA
Utricularia intermedia Hayne, U. ochroleuca R.W. Hartm., U. stygia Thor and U. bremii Heer ex Kölliker ( ... are the four rarest and critically endangered European Utricularia (bladderwort) species from the generic section Utricularia. They are aquatic, submerged or amphibious carnivorous plants ... in pools in old shallow sand-pits. These Utricularia species with boreal circumpolar distribution (except for U. ... at the most sites of the four rare Utricularia species. However, ecological consequences of high-water level ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2020 - Elsevier BV | Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics
Although Utricularia cornuta Michx. and U. juncea Vahl, sympatric in the southeastern United States, have been considered conspecific by ... hybrids cannot be produced by standard methods. In Utricularia cornuta the mean values of characters studied quantitatively ... though the extremes of the ranges may overlap. Utricularia juncea has both cleistogamous flowers and chasmogamous flowers ...
Tópico(s): Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
1972 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
Rolf Sattler, Rolf Rutishauser,
In this developmental investigation of Utricularia foliosa and U. australis by means of scanning electron microscopy we demonstrate the relativity of morphological facts and descriptions. We provide ... view, the unusual process combinations of the two Utricularia species do not pose a morphological problem, although ... clarification of the developmental morphology of the two Utricularia species, this investigation illustrates process morphology as a ... such as cladistics is briefly indicated. Key words: Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae, shoot development, leaf development, morphogenesis, process morphology.
Tópico(s): Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects
1990 - Canadian Science Publishing | Canadian Journal of Botany