In cold weather, rice pollen suffers in a variety of ways as it struggles to develop
A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
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Research uncovers a gene that gives pollen grains their unique shapes
The mysterious and complex patterns on pollen walls may self-organise – and far earlier than expected.
‘Two households, both alike …’? How differences between sexes varies with time in flowering plants
Aconitum offers bees more nectar to carry its toxic pollen
Male flowers of Aconitum protect their pollen by adding alkaloids. Without pollen as a reward, botanists asked how the flower compensated pollinators.
Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna
Researching Pollen Illuminating the Invisible
For many people, pollen means nose itching and eyes watering – but it is so much more. It is the reason we have food on our plates, and flowers around us. When pollen forms abnormally or degenerates, it is unable to generate new life through the production of a seed. Many factors can affect pollen development, and this is what my research is about.
Limited seed and pollen gene dispersal in Taxus baccata
Glycoprotein secretions and pollen tube kinetics in apple
The Sex Lives of Plants Laid Bare
Botanotechnoinspirationals
Hanging On To Your Date, Avoiding Incest And Not Getting Infected – All In A Day’s Work For Flowers Of The Mustard Family
Temporal variation in gender in an annual plant
The widespread tendency towards declining fruit set from first to last flowers on plants may contribute to temporal variation in allocation optima.
Cause for optimism (maybe not…)
There’s an insufficiency of people to grow the new crops that aren’t being identified because of the dearth of plant taxonomists. Where will it all end..?
Flow cytometric analysis of bee pollen loads
Kron et al. use flow cytometry to characterize pollen loads from individual bees, using DNA content as a species marker,