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The Venus Flytrap, a Plant That Can Count

September 26, 2026Journal Articlesheinsius

By applying a series of trigger-hair stimulations, the touch hormone jasmonic acid signaling pathway is activated already after the second stimulus. More than three APs are required to trigger an expression of genes encoding prey-degrading hydrolases. The motor cells that close the leafy trap when they received two signals within about 20 seconds. The trap is remembering the first signal for a 20 seconds, and then the first electrical pulse is forgotten, resetting the trapping process. (Böhm et al. Current Biology, Available online: 21 January 2016).

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