As a part of our study on interspecific cross barriers in Lilium spp., we compared pollen tube growth in intraspecific (L. longiflorum) and interspecific (L. longiflorum x Lilium x `Mont Blanc') ...

People have used it to look at fossilised pollen but it's the first time it's been done on fresh pollen from living plants,' says House. The FIB-SEM is like an ordinary SEM but where the SEM uses a ...

Cape Town - Wits researchers have become the first to cut sections through pollen grains and make it possible to view a three dimensional image of the internal wall. Under the supervision of Professor ...

One in five people in the UK suffer from hay fever every year - but even the worst affected could appreciate the beauty of pollen grains blown up by a million times. This gallery features false-colour ...