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Tip of a tulip stamen with many grains of pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants. When pollen lands on a compatible pistil or female cone (i.e., when pollination has occurred), it germinates and produces a pollen tube that transfers the sperm to the ovule (or female gametophyte). Individual pollen grains are small enough to require magnification to see detail. The study of pollen is called palynology and is highly useful in paleoecology, paleontology, archeology, and forensics.

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• Related: European Pollen Database, Evolution of sex, Pollen count, Pollen source, Pollen calendar, Polyphenol antioxidant

Pollen and Spore Identification Literature Pollen and Spore Identification Literature www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/polident.html - Web

Pollen micrographs at SEM and confocal microscope Pollen micrographs at SEM and confocal microscope albertlleal.com/en/reports/category/10-pollen-micrographs.html - Web

The flight of a pollen cloud The flight of a pollen cloud www.gmo-safety.eu/.../128.maize-outcrossing-flight-pollen-cloud.html - Web

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PalDat (database comprising palynological data fro... PalDat (database comprising palynological data from a variety of plant families) www.paldat.org - Web

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