Pollen Grains from Common Plants (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Pollen Grains from Common Plants

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Both plants and insects depend on insect pollination but so do people. Without insect pollination, we would have to survive on a monotonous diet limited to wind-pollinated grasses, such as wheat and corn.

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