Ali Pagliery<\/p>\n
Mentors: Richard Wong, Katrina DeWitt, Justin Wright, Ph.D.<\/p>\n
Department of Biology\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sarracenia purpurea<\/i> is a species of carnivorous plant with pitcher-like structures that collect rainwater. Inside the pitchers lives an inquiline micro-community of organisms that help break down prey that lands in the pitchers, providing the plant with nutrients. S. purpurea <\/i>ranges from southeast U.S. to Canada, but it is unknown how the micro-community and its importance for the plant\u2019s nutrient uptake varies across latitudes. We hypothesized that S. purpurea <\/i>from lower latitudes will rely more on digestive enzymes for nutrient uptake, while S. purpurea <\/i>from higher latitudes will rely more on the micro-community. We will take fluid and leaf samples from plants across a latitudinal gradient. We will study enzyme concentrations, the organismal composition of the micro-communities, and perform a nitrogen analysis to study nutrient uptake. We expect that the plants at lower latitudes will have a higher enzyme concentration, a more diverse inquiline community, and a higher degree of nutrient uptake than plants further north. The plants at higher latitudes will likely have a lower enzyme concentration and a less extensive inquiline community, but they will largely rely on this community for acquiring nutrients. Our findings can be applied to similar aquatic systems that exist on a macro scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ali Pagliery Mentors: Richard Wong, Katrina DeWitt, Justin Wright, Ph.D. Department of Biology\u00a0 Sarracenia purpurea is a species of carnivorous plant with pitcher-like structures that collect rainwater. Inside the pitchers lives an inquiline micro-community of organisms that help break down prey that lands in the pitchers, providing the plant with nutrients. S. purpurea ranges from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[658455,658461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsurf-2021","category-week-6-bsurf-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/adhoc_org_trinity_hhr_fellows\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}