Science news articles about 'pollen tubes'Mate choice in plants
... Petunia. Three other glycoproteins, proteins with attached carbohydrate components, have been found to be associated with pollen tubes. These proteins, transmitting-tract-specific (TTS), 120 kDa ... U of T discovers environmental factors linked to sex ratio of plants
... neighbouring males. They then measured the amount of pollen captured by female flowers and collected seeds ... capture large amounts of pollen, female-determining pollen tubes out-compete male-determining ... UT Knoxville professor finds unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity
... angiosperms, the older plants grew shorter pollen tubes and took longer to do so ... diverse modern species. According to Williams, this indicates that these pollen tubes likely played a previously unknown ... Female plant 'communicates' rejection or acceptance of male
... , caused rejection of pollen from close relatives by acting as a cytotoxin, or a toxic substance, in the pollen tube.
For their study, the MU team used Nicotiana alata, a relative of tobacco commonly ... Nerve repair, biodetectors, proton therapy, microscopic medical devices
... numbers of deadly infectious agents or allergenic pollen molecules can cause big problems for humans. ... successful detection of two Timothy grass pollen proteins, which are major human allergens. Her ...
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Mate choice in plants
... Petunia. Three other glycoproteins, proteins with attached carbohydrate components, have been found to be associated with pollen tubes. These proteins, transmitting-tract-specific (TTS), 120 kDa ...U of T discovers environmental factors linked to sex ratio of plants
... neighbouring males. They then measured the amount of pollen captured by female flowers and collected seeds ... capture large amounts of pollen, female-determining pollen tubes out-compete male-determining ...UT Knoxville professor finds unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity
... angiosperms, the older plants grew shorter pollen tubes and took longer to do so ... diverse modern species. According to Williams, this indicates that these pollen tubes likely played a previously unknown ...Female plant 'communicates' rejection or acceptance of male
... , caused rejection of pollen from close relatives by acting as a cytotoxin, or a toxic substance, in the pollen tube. For their study, the MU team used Nicotiana alata, a relative of tobacco commonly ...Nerve repair, biodetectors, proton therapy, microscopic medical devices
... numbers of deadly infectious agents or allergenic pollen molecules can cause big problems for humans. ... successful detection of two Timothy grass pollen proteins, which are major human allergens. Her ...