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Smooth or with a Snap! Biomechanics of Trap Reopening in the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

Durak, Grażyna M. ; Thierer, Rebecca ; Sachse, Renate ; Bischoff, Manfred ; Speck, Thomas ; Poppinga, Simon (2022)
Smooth or with a Snap! Biomechanics of Trap Reopening in the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula).
In: Advanced Science, 2022, 9 (22)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00022437
Artikel, Zweitveröffentlichung, Verlagsversion

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Fast snapping in the carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) involves trap lobe bending and abrupt curvature inversion (snap‐buckling), but how do these traps reopen? Here, the trap reopening mechanics in two different D. muscipula clones, producing normal‐sized (N traps, max. ≈3 cm in length) and large traps (L traps, max. ≈4.5 cm in length) are investigated. Time‐lapse experiments reveal that both N and L traps can reopen by smooth and continuous outward lobe bending, but only L traps can undergo smooth bending followed by a much faster snap‐through of the lobes. Additionally, L traps can reopen asynchronously, with one of the lobes moving before the other. This study challenges the current consensus on trap reopening, which describes it as a slow, smooth process driven by hydraulics and cell growth and/or expansion. Based on the results gained via three‐dimensional digital image correlation (3D‐DIC), morphological and mechanical investigations, the differences in trap reopening are proposed to stem from a combination of size and slenderness of individual traps. This study elucidates trap reopening processes in the (in)famous Dionaea snap traps – unique shape‐shifting structures of great interest for plant biomechanics, functional morphology, and applications in biomimetics, i.e., soft robotics.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2022
Autor(en): Durak, Grażyna M. ; Thierer, Rebecca ; Sachse, Renate ; Bischoff, Manfred ; Speck, Thomas ; Poppinga, Simon
Art des Eintrags: Zweitveröffentlichung
Titel: Smooth or with a Snap! Biomechanics of Trap Reopening in the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 2022
Ort: Darmstadt
Publikationsdatum der Erstveröffentlichung: 2022
Verlag: Wiley-VCH
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Advanced Science
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 9
(Heft-)Nummer: 22
Kollation: 8 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00022437
URL / URN: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/22437
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Fast snapping in the carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) involves trap lobe bending and abrupt curvature inversion (snap‐buckling), but how do these traps reopen? Here, the trap reopening mechanics in two different D. muscipula clones, producing normal‐sized (N traps, max. ≈3 cm in length) and large traps (L traps, max. ≈4.5 cm in length) are investigated. Time‐lapse experiments reveal that both N and L traps can reopen by smooth and continuous outward lobe bending, but only L traps can undergo smooth bending followed by a much faster snap‐through of the lobes. Additionally, L traps can reopen asynchronously, with one of the lobes moving before the other. This study challenges the current consensus on trap reopening, which describes it as a slow, smooth process driven by hydraulics and cell growth and/or expansion. Based on the results gained via three‐dimensional digital image correlation (3D‐DIC), morphological and mechanical investigations, the differences in trap reopening are proposed to stem from a combination of size and slenderness of individual traps. This study elucidates trap reopening processes in the (in)famous Dionaea snap traps – unique shape‐shifting structures of great interest for plant biomechanics, functional morphology, and applications in biomimetics, i.e., soft robotics.

Freie Schlagworte: biomechanics, carnivorous plants, mechanical instability problems, plant movement, snap‐buckling, snap‐traps
Status: Verlagsversion
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-224372
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 10 Fachbereich Biologie
10 Fachbereich Biologie > Botanischer Garten
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Letzte Änderung: 10 Okt 2022 06:06
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