pollen grain
noun
: one of the granular microspores that occur in pollen and give rise to the male gametophyte of a seed plant
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There, researchers isolated the pollen grains attached to the butterflies’ bodies and sequenced a particular stretch of the pollen DNA that offers a unique signature for each plant species, a process known as metabarcoding.
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Saugat Bolakhe, JSTOR Daily, 23 Jan. 2025
Each tall green weed can release 1 billion pollen grains and the plant grows extremely well in Virginia.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The greedy system eliminates the competing pollen grains that lack this gene drive.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
In computer simulations, their average charge was strong enough to lift 100 pollen grains at least six millimeters in less than a second.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Saugat Bolakhe, JSTOR Daily, 23 Jan. 2025
Each tall green weed can release 1 billion pollen grains and the plant grows extremely well in Virginia.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
The greedy system eliminates the competing pollen grains that lack this gene drive.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
In computer simulations, their average charge was strong enough to lift 100 pollen grains at least six millimeters in less than a second.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Pollen grain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollen%20grain. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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