High-speed video showed that pollen grains from exploding flowers functioned like missiles to knock existing pollen away. “It’s almost like there’s a division of labor for pollen.

Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move ...

Pollen rubs off onto the bird's head as it feeds and is thereby transported from flower to flower. The honeybee is one of the goldenrod's best customers, collecting its pollen for protein and its ...

Reproduction begins when a flower releases pollen, microscopic packets of genetic material, into the air. Eventually these grains come to rest on another flower's stigma, a tiny pollen receptor.

So, they extracted some grains of pollen and analyzed them, along with the flower's anatomy. After re-examining the blossom, they concluded that the 19th-century scientists who first investigated ...

Indeed, Figure 1 shows an example of a cross between homozygous pea plants with purple flowers and long pollen grains and homozygous plants with red flowers and round pollen grains that exhibits ...

The winning entry (pictured above) shows a cross-section of a bloom from the “Cosmic Orange” variety of the Mexican aster (Cosmos sulphureus), with pollen grains maturing inside its anthers.