Coiled Pollen Tubes (IMAGE)

Brown University

Coiled Pollen Tubes

Caption

With the proper genes disabled, pollen tubes coiling in the ovule of plants don't burst to release their pollen. Instead, they just keep coiling.

Credit

Johnson lab/Brown University

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