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.

Realising that most conventional soap would be too toxic for flowers, Dr Miyako developed what he terms "chemically functionalised" soap bubbles that could each carry up to 2,000 pollen grains.

Honeybees along with 1,500 other insect species pollinate plants in the UK. Self-pollination: The pollen grain lands on the same flower it originated from. Cross-pollination: The pollen grain ...

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 ...

Because each plant species produces a distinctive type of pollen, pollen grains contained within ancient sediments, airborne dust, and even the honey you have on your toast for breakfast can be traced ...