Pollen grains (from the greek palynos for dust or pollen) contain the male
gametophyte (
microgametophyte) phase of the
plant.
Full article >>>pollen grain The structure into which a
haploid microspore develops; contains a halpoid tube
nucleus and two
haploid sperm nuclei at maturity.
pollen The collective term for
pollen grains, the male
gametophytes.
Full article >>>pollen grainA small structure of higher
plants that contains
haploid male
gamete nuclei and is surrounded by a double wall, the exine and intine.
Pollen grains are
transported from the male
stamen to the female
stigma in a process called
pollination.
Full article >>>All
pollen grains — incompatible as well as compatible — germinate forming
pollen tubes that begin to grow down the
style.
Full article >>>After the
pistil is pollinated, the
pollen grain germinates in a response to a sugary fluid secreted by the mature
stigma. From each
pollen grain, a
pollen tube grows out attempting to travel into the
ovary by creating a path.
Full article >>>The terminal pollen sac of a
stamen, inside which
pollen grains with male
gametes form in the
flower of an
angiosperm.
antheridium pl.
antheridia
In
plants, the male gametangium, a moist chamber in which
gametes develop.
Full article >>>minute
spore that grows into a male
gametophyte; in
seed plants the
microspore is the young
pollen grainSource: Noland, George B. 1983. General
Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Full article >>>pollen tube -- In
seed plants, the extension of the male
gametophyte as it emerges from the
pollen grain in search of the female
gametophyte.
Full article >>>: The union of one male
gametophyte nucleus with the
ovum nucleus and another male
gametophyte nucleus with the
polar nuclei to form the
endosperm in
seed plants. See also
pollen grain.
Double
heterozygote ...
Full article >>>In these the
gametophyte stage is completely reduced, and the
sporophyte begins life inside an enclosure called a
seed, which develops while on the parent
plant, and with fertilisation by means of
pollen grains.
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