The International Carnivorous Plant Socienty (ICPS) is organizing a regular Webinar series (zoom events), and today it was my honour to talk about the sex lives of Nepenthes. Here is the recorded presentation:

Sex Lives of Nepenthes Webinar

Please note the reference to the Nepenthes gracilis genome paper is:

Saul, F.*, Scharmann, M.*, Wakatake, T., Rajaraman, S., Marques, A., Freund, M., Bringmann, G., Channon, L., Becker, D., Carroll, E., Low, Y. W., Lindqvist, C., Gilbert, K. J., Renner, T., Masuda, S., Richter, M., Vogg, G., Shirasu, K., . . . Albert, V. & Fukushima, K. (2023). Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis. Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01562-2 *co-first authorship

Instructions for the molecular PCR sexing assay of Nepenthes can be found in the Supplementary Material of this publication:

Scharmann, M., Grafe, T. U., Metali, F., & Widmer, A. (2019). Sex is determined by XY chromosomes across the radiation of dioecious Nepenthes pitcher plants. Evolution Letters, 3(6), 586-597. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.142