Pollen tube growth on camera illuminates fertilisation

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 04:49 in Biology & Nature

Studying pollen tubes, University of Massachusetts Amherst plant cell biologist Peter Hepler and colleagues have captured some of the fastest growing tissues known, on camera for the first time, to advance understanding of fertilisation processes critical to development of all fruits, nuts, grains, rice, corn, wheat and other crops we depend on for food...

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