How Plants Use Scoop-Shaped Pores to Distribute Their Pollen Efficiently
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Viennese botanists have opened up exciting new insights. Namely, plants are well-finned in the distribution of their pollen. Around ten percent of the flowering plants distribute their pollen only to wild bees and bumblebees, which vibrate their petal leaves. Then pollen from the dust bags is poured out as a wide cloud by small pores. Some plants additionally have shovels on the pores and thereby throw a targeted pollen beam on the pollinators. …
How plants use scoop-shaped pores to distribute their pollen efficiently
Bees are the most important pollinators of flowering plants, and approximately 10% of flowering plants are functionally specialized for buzz pollination. Buzz pollination is a mechanism in which pollen can be extracted from flowers only through the application of mechanical vibrations. Many important crops, such as tomatoes, eggplants and blueberries, are buzz-pollinated because they conceal their pollen in so-called poricidal anthers—floral str…
Bee during vibration pollination on a flowering of a black-mouthed plant
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