Dear Dr. Raman, thank you ...that was very prompt... the autoradiograph is interesting and the bracts picked up the most labelled phenylalanine... so the organ that's source of enzymes is also the uptake organ???
I'll keep the link you sent me as a source, I downloaded and read the paper you sent in, thanks again.. Usha di ===== On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Dr. Usha, > > Open access to the article is available at: > http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/jbiosci/20/657-664 > However, I hv also attached the pdf here... > I knew that the bracts exude a sticky substance, but I never expected > digestive enzymes in it...its an information to me...thanks to all... > Dear Pankaj, your hypothesis (in an another thread) seems to be correct > (don't think its too late :)). You have amazing research aptitude... > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Ushadi micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Not native to India...AND NEWLY OPENED FLOWER LOOKS VERY PRETTY LIKE >> ANY GARDEN variety PASSIFLORA species... >> http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/passifloraf.jpg >> >> Now naturalized in most tropical areas... is on a noxious weed list: >> >> http://www.invasivespecies.net/database/species/ecology.asp?si=341&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN >> >> Though it seems to have some nice redeeming value... >> I liked the last sentence in WIKI .. that its saponin richness is >> useful in making nondetergent sahmpoo/soap... >> love that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_foetida >> >> And Australian site that tracks useful plants list it: >> http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/listing/passiflorafoetida.htm >> >> GO FIGURE...!!! >> >> Edict that Trash of one is gold of other....must be true !! >> >> About the shampoo soap....wonder if someone has made it??? >> >> WHAT INTRIGUED ME THE MOST IS A PAPER BY DR RADHARAMANI of >> Bangalore... >> which states that the intricate network of the bracts on the surface >> of the fruit makes this plant a protocarnivorous, or borderline >> carnivorous... ((Radhamani, T. R., L. Sudarshana, et al. (1995). >> Defense and carnivory: Dual role of bracts in Passiflora foetida. >> Journal of Biosciences Bangalore 20(5): 657-664. {a} Promotion Res. >> Dev. Efforts Selected Crops., PC Unit, Bangalore 560 065, India )) I >> could access only the abstract... the pdf needs to be bought at >> springerlink site!!! >> >> DOES ANY ONE AT EFLORA HAVE ACCESS TO DR RADHARAMANI or to this >> paper?? >> >> Usha di >> >> =========== >> On Aug 20, 5:42 am, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes P foetida >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Dr Pankaj Kumar < >> [email protected]>wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > > Yes this is Passiflora foetida. >> > > Pankaj >> > >> > > On Aug 19, 10:11 pm, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > Looks like *Passiflora foetida*. >> > >> > > > Regards >> > >> > > > Vijayasankar Raman >> > > > National Center for Natural Products Research >> > > > University of Mississippi >> > >> > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, ravi g <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > > I require your help in identification of this Passiflora species. >> I >> > > had >> > > > > photographed it in Bangalore growing wildly along the shores of >> the >> > > lakes. >> > > > > It is a wild creeper and it is surely not the passion fruit plant. >> I >> > > would >> > > > > be grateful if you could help me in identification of this >> species! >> > >> > -- >> > Regards >> > >> > Dr Balkar Singh >> > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >> > Arya P G College, Panipat >> > Haryana-132103 >> > 09416262964 >> > >
