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Pollen and Pollination

Pollen and Pollination

Dafni, Amots
Pacini, Ettore
Hesse, Michael

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Botany & Horticulture

ISBN10: 3709172489
ISBN13: 9783709172483
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 6 2012
Pages: 341
Weight: 1.82
Height: 0.74 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Pollen studies make important contributions nature, into three main themes: pollen struc- to our knowledge in many interdisciplinary ture and constituents, pollen evolutionary arenas. Pollen identification is widely used in ecology and the pollen-pollinator interface. reconstruction of, e.g., vegetation, the climate Several papers overlap somewhat or are of the past, and plant biodiversity. Studies perhaps even somewhat contradictory and concerning pollen structure, size and form are reflect the author's own ideas and experience. key issues in basic sciences, as, e.g., plant Some could be understood more deeply by taxonomy and evolution, but are also of consulting other closely related articles. The importance in applied fields as, e.g., plant reader is strongly referred to the respective breeding. In pollination studies pollen is literature list of each article. generally used specifically to identify food ofanther ripening and pollen The last steps development (Pacini) and the mature pollen sources of visitors and to reconstruct their foraging routes. Fewer have been devoted to wall structure (Hesse) are key factors to pollen collection mechanisms and to the struc- understand pollen dispersal mechanisms in ture and content of pollen in relation to its biotic pollination (Stroo) as well as abiotic pollination (Ackerman). Pollen size, shape, function.

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