Biology · Botany & Plant Science
A topic within Botany & Plant Science, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Biology.
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Charles Darwin
Shows through hundreds of feeding experiments on sundews and Venus flytraps that some plants digest captured insects with a process functionally like animal digestion, and argues carnivory evolved because it lets a plant supplement poor soil nitrogen.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zeiger, Ian Max Møller & Angus Murphy
Treats a plant as a set of integrated physiological systems - water transport, photosynthesis, hormone signalling, growth - and is the standard text the field is taught from.