aura optik 1 article published in JoVE Biology Isolation of Viable Multicellular Glands from Tissue of the Carnivorous Plant, Nepenthes Sandy Rottloff1, Axel Mithöfer2, Ute Müller3, Roland Kilper3 1Laboratoire Agronomie et Environnement, Université de Lorraine, 2Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 3aura optik Plants glands are specialized structures responsible for the biosynthesis and secretion of many compounds involved in interactions with the biotic environment. To enable studies on their molecular and biochemical features, a mechanical micropreparation technique was established in order to isolate single metabolically active glands, here from the carnivorous plant Nepenthes.
