Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The model was trained with 6,404 images of 29 pollen species. There was 96% correlation in identifying pollen ...

Nature carried with it the traces of a past time, and every inch of its being revealed something new and unknown. One such material in nature was pollen grains that were not only allergens but also ...

An electron microscope image, colorized, shows different structures of pollen grains, including sunflower, morning glory and primrose. Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility If pollen allergies are ...

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are usually no larger than 20 micrometers, or 0.02 millimeters. Using these ...

Rapid alkalinization factors (RALFs) are required for pollen tube germination and elongation, an essential process in plant fertilization. But their role in monocot plants remains unexplored.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Sang-Kyu Lee, Joon-Seob Eom, Seon-Kap Hwang, Dongjin Shin, Gynheung An, Thomas W. Okita and Jong-Seong Jeon To elucidate the starch synthesis pathway and the role of this reserve in rice pollen, we ...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. A study in ...

At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the ...

Drought severely affects gametophytic development in maize. To explore pollen tolerance to drought stress, the pollen grains of 16 inbred lines were subjected to osmotic stress (without and with ...